53 Bible Verses about Hardship

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, 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 shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything 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.

For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

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

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Therefore 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, and in cold and nakedness.

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers;

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

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

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

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

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:

But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."

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

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;