38 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin:

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;

And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.

Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;