53 Bible Verses about Hardship

Be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist (preacher of the good news), and fulfill your ministry.

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

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

It should not seem hard to you when you set him free. After all he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man. Jehovah your God will bless you in whatever you do.

I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal. But the word of God is not imprisoned.

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

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.

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.

We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that began in Asia. We were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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!

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

You must endure hardship 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 I am strong.

In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.

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.

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

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

He said to her: You are talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Should we not also accept the bad? Through all this Job did not speak sinful words.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;

You have endured and are patient. You suffer for my name's sake and have not grown weary.

For this is to your credit to suffer wrongfully and endure grief because of your conscience toward God.

They strengthened the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith. They said, We must enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation.

Jehovah, remember David and all his affliction.

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

God deals with you like children. Endure discipline (instruction) (training). Who is the child whom a father does not discipline?

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

You may remember, brothers, our labor and hardship. We worked day and night that we would not burden any of you when we preached the good news of God to you.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

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.

Now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be respected, who keeps faith and mercy, do not let his trouble seem small to you. It has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

Trouble and anguish have come upon me. Even so I am fond of your commandments.

Holy Spirit warns me that in every city, prison and hardships are facing me there.

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

In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Affliction does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. He said: This is what your brother Israel says: 'You know all the hardships we have had.

But you must remain strong and not become discouraged. Your actions will be rewarded.

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.

You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me. Your forces come against me wave upon wave.

I do not say this for the ease of others and for your affliction

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

Adversity pursues sinners. The righteous will be repaid with goodness.

They have no drudgery in their lives like ordinary people. They are not plagued with problems like mankind.

The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.

Stand firm in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brothers in the world.

Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.

Know that the testing of your faith produces patience (endurance).

God has blocked my path so that I cannot go on. He has made my path dark.

We did not eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, we worked hard and struggled night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.