19 Bible Verses About Consistency

  • Malachi 3:6 gives God’s unchanging character as the reason the children of Jacob “are not consumed,” even though they have turned aside from his statutes since their fathers’ days.
  • 2 Timothy 2:13 breaks the pattern of the saying it closes: human faithlessness is not matched by God, because “he cannot deny himself.”
  • Hebrews 10:23 ties holding fast “without wavering” to the faithfulness of God, and verses 24-25 turn it into the habit of meeting together.
  • In Luke 9:62 Jesus answers a man who wants first to say farewell at home with a picture of a plowman who must not look back.
  • Revelation 2:10 and James 1:12 both promise the crown of life to those who stay faithful under testing.

In the Bible, consistency starts with God, who does not change, and the same steadiness is then asked of his people. Through the prophet Malachi he says, “I the Lord do not change” (Malachi 3:6), and several passages tie the steadiness of his people to his. Scripture’s words for it are steadfast, endure, abide and hold fast. People are told to be “steadfast, immovable” (1 Corinthians 15:58), to hold fast “without wavering” (Hebrews 10:23), to be “constant in prayer” (Romans…

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