39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.

and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

Hath not man a life of labour 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 time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:

Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.

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

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.

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

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:

but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, for it is very much better,

Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.

Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

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

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with 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, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.

For our momentary and light affliction works for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory;

For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.

because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;