53 Bible Verses about Hardship

But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

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

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

It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.

wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

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

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.

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.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

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.

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

Suffer hardship with me , as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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;

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

and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary.

For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Jehovah, remember for David All his affliction;

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

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

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

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and lovingkindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.

save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

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

but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.

For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

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

Evil pursueth sinners; But the righteous shall be recompensed with good.

They are not in trouble as other men; Neither are they plagued like other men.

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.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;

whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you: