39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

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

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

If a man dieth, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change shall come.

For which I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Blessed is the man that endureth 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 is of few days, and full of trouble.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will have tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.

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

But if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they afflicted like other men.

But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Live joyfully 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 this life, and in thy labor which thou takest under the sun.

For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do.

For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not.

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And the children struggled together within her: and she said, If it is so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

For, when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

For to you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience;