39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

If a man die, shall he live again ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

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

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.

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

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

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

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.

They are not in trouble as other men; Neither are they plagued like other men.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places .

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;