53 Bible Verses about Hardship

And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

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

Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

'It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.

in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

for this is gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

A Song of the Ascents. Remember, Jehovah, for David, all his afflictions.

And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands are my delights.

save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

And Moses sendeth messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, 'Thus said thy brother Israel, Thou -- thou hast known all the travail which hath found us;

and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory about to be revealed in us;

Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.

for not that for others release, and ye pressured, do I speak,

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

Evil pursueth sinners, And good recompenseth the righteous.

In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;