29 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear of in me.

and patience, experience, and experience, hope;

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.

for which I also labor, striving with his power which operates in me with power.

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

These things have I told you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.

But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you.

knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those in every affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God,

In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials,

But remember the former days, in which having been enlightened you endured a great conflict with sufferings,

For to this end we also labor and suffer reproach, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

But I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far better;

For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do.

for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.

I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me;

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;

and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

For the light affliction which is for a moment, works out for us more abundantly an eternal weight of glory,

For when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were distressed on every hand; without were conflicts, within fears;

because it was given to you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for him,

And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,