37 Bible Verses about Overcoming Adversity

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up. I have overcome the world."

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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 afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him.

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been been grieved by various trials,

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. They did not love their life, even to death.

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

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also are not tempted.

Do not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause and wink their eyes.

I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses."

Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

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

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

The LORD said to her, Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.

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

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

"Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks. For there will always be something to cause people to stumble, but woe to the person through whom the stumbling block comes.

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

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.

He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.