45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

Use well the time of prosperity and remember the time of misfortune: For God maketh one by the other, so that a man can find nothing else.

This understand, that in the last days shall come perilous times:

They shall not be confounded in the perilous time; and in the days of dearth they shall have enough.

{To the Chanter, a song of the children of Korah upon Alamoth} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation? Or anguish? Or persecution, other hunger? Other nakedness? Other peril? Other sword?

And though the LORD giveth you the bread of adversity, and the water of trouble, thine instructor flyeth not far from thee; if thine eyes look unto thine instructor,

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

patience bringeth experience, experience bringeth hope,

But and if thou take a wife, thou sinnest not. Likewise if a virgin marry, she sinneth not. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in their flesh: but I saver you.

For such one never sayeth, 'Where is God that made me? And that shineth upon us, that we might praise him in the night?

As for me, I will sing of thy power, and praise thy mercy betimes in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

In the time of my trouble I sought the LORD, I held up mine hands to him in the night season, for my soul refused all other comfort.

Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?

He is a friend that always loveth, and in adversity a man shall know who is his brother.

But pray not thou for this people; bid neither praise nor prayer for them. For though they cry unto me in their trouble, yet will I not hear them.

If any of you be evil vexed, let him pray. If any of you be merry, let him sing Psalms.

Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant?

O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me! And yet didst thou turn and refresh me; yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Blessed is he, that considereth the poor; the LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble.

When I call upon thee, thou hearest me, and endowest my soul with much strength.

Thou hast showed thy people heavy things; thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle; yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone.

in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season - if need require - ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,

Full gracious is the LORD, and a stronghold in time of trouble. He knoweth them that put their trust in him:

I called upon the LORD in trouble, and the LORD heard me at large.

And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me."

Then shouldest thou forget thy misery, and think no more upon it, than upon the waters that run by.

The hope of the ungodly in time of need, is like a rotten tooth and a slippery foot.

"The poor delivereth he out of his affliction, and comforteth such as be in necessity and trouble.

that they may drink it, and forget their misery and adversity.

Let truth and faithfulness be in her time: power, health, wisdom, knowledge and the fear of God are her treasure.

Therefore the wise must now be fain to hold his tongue, so wicked a time is it.

Use thy self to live joyfully with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life which is but vanity, that God hath given thee under the Sun; all the days of thy vanity. For that is thy portion in this life, of all thy labor and travail that thou takest under the Sun.

And the LORD answered me, "Lead not I thee then unto good? Come not I to thee, when thou art in trouble? And help thee, when thine enemy oppresseth thee?

In the house of the righteous are great riches; but the increase of the ungodly are nigh destruction.

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.

and they said unto him, "Thus sayeth Hezekiah, 'This is the day of trouble, of plague, and of wrath: like as when a child cometh to the birth, but the woman hath no power to bring it forth.

Call to remembrance the days that are passed in the which, after ye had received light, ye endured a great fight in adversities,

For man knoweth not his time, but like as the fish are taken with the angle and as the birds are caught with the snare: Even so are men taken in the perilous time, when it cometh suddenly upon them.

These words have I spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. For in the world shall ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

Rejoice in hope. Be patient in tribulation, continue in prayer.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall be.

Alas for this day, which is so dreadful, that none may be likened unto it: and alas for the time of Jacob's trouble, from the which he shall yet be delivered.