45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider that God made one as well as the other, to the end that man should find nothing that comes after him.

Know this also that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times will come.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they will have abundance.

([Sons of Korah]) God is our refuge and strength, a ready help in times of trouble.

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

Jehovah may give you troubles and hardships. But your Teacher (Grand Instructor) will no longer be hidden from you. You will see your Teacher with your own eyes.

If you fail in time of trouble your strength is small.

The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.

He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God.

Tribulation produces an approved condition and an approved condition produces hope.

If you marry you have not sinned. If a virgin marries she has not sinned. Those who marry will face many problems in this life and I want to spare you.

However no one says: 'Where is God my Maker, who gives strength in the night?'

But I will sing about your strength. In the morning I will joyfully sing about your loving-kindness. You have been my stronghold and a place of safety in times of trouble.

In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. I refused to be comforted.

Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was I not grieved for the needy?

A friend loves at all times. A true brother is born for adversity.

Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry or pray for them. I will not listen when they call to me for help in times of trouble.

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

Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.

You who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

([Psalm of David]) Blessed (happy) is the one who has concern for helpless people. Jehovah will rescue (save) him in times of trouble.

When I called, you answered me. You made me bold. You strengthened me.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

He hides me in his shelter when there is trouble. He keeps me hidden in his tent. He puts me high on a rock.

You greatly rejoice in this, though you have been grieved with various trials for a little while.

Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble! He knows (protects) (takes care of) those who take refuge in him.

In my distress I called to Jehovah; he answered me and set me free.

Call on me in times of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.

You will forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.

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

But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.

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

He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge. Respect for Jehovah is the key to this treasure.

The prudent will keep silent for it is an evil time.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

Jehovah said: I will certainly rescue you for a good. I will certainly make your enemies plead with you in times of evil and in times of distress.

There is treasure in the house of the righteous. The earnings of the wicked bring trouble.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice!

They said to him: Hezekiah says: 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection. Children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

Remember the former days in which, after being enlightened, you endured great struggle with afflictions.

For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

I spoke to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation. Be of good cheer for I have conquered the world!

Rejoice in hope! Be patient in tribulation. Continue in prayer.

There will be great tribulation. It will be greater than any has ever been from the beginning of the world until now.

How terrible that day will be! There will be no other day like it. It will be a time of calamity for the descendants of Jacob, but they will be rescued from it.