29 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

Wretched man that I am!

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

knowing that tribulation worketh patience, And patience experience, and experience hope;

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

For which also I labour, striving according to his mighty working, who worketh in me mightily.

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

Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

I have spoken these things to you, that ye may have peace in me. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but take courage: I have overcome the world.

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

Yet if thou dost 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.

But let patience have it's perfect work,

Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, tho' now for a little while (if need be) ye are in heaviness thro' manifold temptations.

But call ye to mind the former days, in which, after ye were inlightened, ye endured so great a conflict of sufferings:

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of them that believe.

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

For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, for it is far better.

For that which I do I approve not; for what I would, 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 desireth against the Spirit, but the Spirit desireth against the flesh (these are contrary to each other) that ye may not do the things which 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 world, of the darkness of this age, against wicked spirits in heavenly places.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou art called, and hast confessed the good confession 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 what is good, I find not.

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

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

This also is of God. For to you it is given, with regard to Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him:

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,