37 Bible Verses about Overcoming Adversity

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

When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.

Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.

whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall.

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

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,

Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the'sleep of death;

But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head,'saying ,

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

And Jehovah said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger.

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.

Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!

So shall they fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Jehovah driveth.

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted and thou art in anguish.

Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled strong horses.

And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Jehovah shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.