37 Bible Verses about Overcoming Adversity

These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.

when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:

Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold upon me: thy commandments are my delights.

Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which is in the world.

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

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

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.

Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

For this reason take to you the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.

Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,

If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.

and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

and they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have not loved their life even unto death.

In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men: --

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.

praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, and of the beasts of the earth thou shalt not be afraid.

Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.

Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without cause.

And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not 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, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Then we prayed to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

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

ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

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

And Abram heard that his brother was taken captive; and he led out his trained servants, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them 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 to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence comes!

And they shall fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of Jehovah will lift up a banner against him.

But Abraham said, Child, recollect that thou hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and thou art in suffering.

Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well-spring; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled, strong horses.

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