29 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body that subjects me to death?

since you have the same conflict that you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

and patience, an approved character, and an approved character, hope;

You have not yet resisted to blood, in your contest with sin;

to which end I also labor, striving according to his energy, which works in me mightily.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for, being approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction, but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.

For I consider the sufferings of the present time not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed for us.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.

who con soles us in all our afflictions, so that we are able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

in which you rejoice, though now for a little while, since it is needful, you are in sorrow under various temptations;

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

for to this end we both labor, and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

I am in a strait between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better:

For what I do, I know not: for that which I wish to do, this I do not; but that which I hate, this I do.

For the good that I wish to do, I do not; but the evil that I wish not to do, this I do.

For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would.

I find, then, this law: That, when I wish to do good, evil is present with me.

for our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with the wicked spirits in the heavenly regions.

Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called, and for which you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.

Now, then, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

For when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest; but we were oppressed on every side: without were battles, within were fears.

For to you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but, also, to suffer for him,

And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience,