39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

And their might is firm.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, 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 about to be revealed in us;

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.

In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

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

for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it is thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,

and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, 'If it is right -- why am I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without are fightings, within -- fears;

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

And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;