34 Bible Verses about Adversity

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

Oh taste and see that Jehovah is good: Blessed is the man that taketh refuge in him.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

The righteous is a guide to his neighbor; But the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that are bowed down.

The righteous cried, and Jehovah heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.read more.
Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you: but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.