53 Bible Verses about Hardship

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

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

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; 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, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

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

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

In weariness and painfulness, 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 removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

And patience, experience; and experience, 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 labours, in watchings, in fastings;

And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:

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

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble 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 delights.

Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Although affliction cometh not forth of 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:

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: 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 in us.

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

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 is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: