37 Bible Verses about Overcoming Adversity

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.

Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

Do not give way to him but be strong in your faith, in the knowledge that your brothers who are in the world undergo the same troubles.

He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

Having no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

And after looking, I got up and said to the great ones and to the chiefs and to the rest of the people, Have no fear of them: keep in mind the Lord who is great and greatly to be feared, and take up arms for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses.

Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.

And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.

And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.

A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.

So they will see the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the east: for he will come like a rushing stream, forced on by a wind of the Lord.

But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

And in the third, white horses; and in the fourth, horses of mixed colour.

And he said to them, Take your rest here tonight, and I will give you an answer after hearing what the Lord says; so the chiefs of Moab kept there with Balaam that night.