29 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?

maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.

fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope;

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;

To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me.

Blessed is he who patiently endures trials; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the victor's crown--even the crown of Life--which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.

But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.

and here is the motive of our toiling and wrestling, because we have our hopes fixed on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, and especially of believers.

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.

I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better.

For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.

For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.

For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

Exert all your strength in the honourable struggle for the faith; lay hold of the Life of the Ages, to which you were called, when you made your noble profession of faith before many witnesses.

For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.

For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a preponderating, yes, a vastly preponderating, and eternal weight of glory;

For even after our arrival in Macedonia we could get no relief such as human nature craves. We were greatly harassed; there were conflicts without and fears within.

For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ--not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf;

And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;