45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In times of prosperity be joyful, but in times of adversity consider this: God has made one as well as the other, so that no one can discover what the future holds.

But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat.

For the music director; by the Korahites; according to the alamoth style; a song. God is our strong refuge; he is truly our helper in times of trouble.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

The sovereign master will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.

If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

As for me, I will sing about your strength; I will praise your loyal love in the morning. For you are my refuge and my place of shelter when I face trouble.

In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.

Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

So, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf. Do not plead with me to save them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them."

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!

For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, the Lord delivers him.

When I cried out for help, you answered me. You made me bold and energized me.

You have made your people experience hard times; you have made us drink intoxicating wine.

He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

The Lord is good -- indeed, he is a fortress in time of distress, and he protects those who seek refuge in him.

In my distress I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.

He delivers the afflicted by their afflictions, he reveals himself to them by their suffering.

let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.

He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.

For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.

The Lord said, "Jerusalem, I will surely send you away for your own good. I will surely bring the enemy upon you in a time of trouble and distress.

In the house of the righteous is abundant wealth, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

"This is what Hezekiah says: 'This is a day of distress, insults, and humiliation, as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare -- just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.