39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

O wretched man that I am: who shall deliver me from this body of death?

and have even the same fight which ye saw me have and now hear of me.

patience bringeth experience, experience bringeth hope,

For ye have not yet resisted unto blood shedding, striving against sin.

Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant?

May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.

Wherein I also labour and strive, even as far forth as his working worketh in me mightily.

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

holding fast the word of life, unto my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither have laboured in vain.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

For they are in no peril of death, but stand fast like a palace.

These words have I spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. For in the world shall ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

For I suppose that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory which shall be showed upon us.

But and if thou take a wife, thou sinnest not. Likewise if a virgin marry, she sinneth not. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in their flesh: but I saver you.

forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season - if need require - ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,

Call to remembrance the days that are passed in the which, after ye had received light, ye endured a great fight in adversities,

For therefore we labour and suffer rebuke, because we believe in the living God, which is the saviour of all men: but specially of those that believe.

They come in no misfortune like other folk; neither are they plagued like other men.

But I see another law in my members rebelling against the law of my mind, and subduing me unto the law of sin, which is in my members.

I am constrained of two things. I desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which thing is best of all:

Use thy self to live joyfully with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life which is but vanity, that God hath given thee under the Sun; all the days of thy vanity. For that is thy portion in this life, of all thy labor and travail that thou takest under the Sun.

because I know not what I do. For what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

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

For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye cannot do that which ye would.

I find then, by the law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood: but against rule, against power, and against worldly rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness for heavenly things.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hand on eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

For I know that in me, that is to say, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. To will is present with me: but I find no means to perform that which is good.

So then, now it is not I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:

And the children strove together within her. Then she said, "If it should go so to pass, what helpeth it that I am with child?" And she went and asked the LORD.

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

For our exceeding tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepareth an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us,

For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: Outward was fighting, inward was fear.

For unto you it is given, that not only ye should believe on Christ: but also suffer for his sake,

Neither do we so, only: but also we rejoice in tribulation: For we know that tribulation bringeth patience,