45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything that shall be after him.

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.

They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil; And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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

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

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night,

But I will sing of thy strength; Yea, I will sing aloud of thy lovingkindness in the morning: For thou hast been my high tower, And a refuge in the day of my distress.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

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

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.

In the day that I called thou answeredst me, Thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.

For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion: In the covert of his tabernacle will he hide me; He will lift me up upon a rock.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,

Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that take refuge in him.

Out of my distress I called upon Jehovah: Jehovah answered me and set me in a large place.

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

For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.

And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah is thy treasure.

Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

Jehovah said, Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure; But in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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.

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.