39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death?

Having the same struggle which ye saw in me, and now hear in me.

And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope.

Ye have not yet resisted until blood, fighting against sin.

Is there not warfare to man upon the earth, and his days as the days of a hireling?

If a man die, shall he live? All the days of my warfare I will wait till the coming of my change.

For which also I am wearied, struggling according to his operation, working in me in power.

Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.

Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet

Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.

The days of our years, in them seventy years; and if in strengths, eighty years, and their pride labor and vanity; for being soon cut off and we shall fly away.

For not the pains to their death, and their body fat

These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world shall ye have pressure; but take courage; I have conquered the world.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us.

And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you.

Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.

Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.

By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:

And recall to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye endured a great combat of sufferings;

For, for this also we are wearied and reproached, that we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, chiefly of the faithful.

They are not in the trouble of men, and with man they shall not be struck.

And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members.

For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)

See life with the wife which thou didst love all the days of the life of thy vanity which he gave to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for this thy portion in life, and in thy labor which thou laborest under the sun.

For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do.

For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do.

I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me.

For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.

And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me.

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And the sons will struggle within her: and she will say,. If so, wherefore am I thus? And she will go to inquire of Jehovah.

Wilt thou be discouraged in the day of straits thy strength is narrow.

For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;

For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.

For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;

And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;