48 Bible Verses about Overcoming Hard Times

But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.

How awful that day will be!
There will be none like it!
It will be a time of trouble for Jacob,
but he will be delivered out of it.

For the choir director. A song of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.God is our refuge and strength,
a helper who is always found
in times of trouble.

If you do nothing in a difficult time,
your strength is limited.

Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a difficult time.

Therefore let everyone who is faithful pray to You
at a time that You may be found.
When great floodwaters come,
they will not reach him.

The Lord is good,
a stronghold in a day of distress;
He cares for those who take refuge in Him.

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

They will not be disgraced in times of adversity;
they will be satisfied in days of hunger.

Know and understand this:
From the issuing of the decree
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
until Messiah the Prince
will be seven weeks and 62 weeks.
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
but in difficult times.

But I will sing of Your strength
and will joyfully proclaim
Your faithful love in the morning.
For You have been a stronghold for me,
a refuge in my day of trouble.

because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.

At that time
Michael the great prince
who stands watch over your people will rise up.
There will be a time of distress
such as never has occurred
since nations came into being until that time.
But at that time all your people
who are found written in the book will escape.

Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

Call on Me in a day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

There will be times of security for you—
a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

Since my youth they have often attacked me,
but they have not prevailed against me.

Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you have.

Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength.

Therefore, the wise person will keep silent
at such a time,
for the days are evil.

Therefore we will not be afraid,
though the earth trembles
and the mountains topple
into the depths of the seas,

I call to You from the ends of the earth
when my heart is without strength.
Lead me to a rock that is high above me,

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

Because you have kept My command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come over the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!

The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to them, but now you will only strike down Aram three times.”

But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials

because you are not speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking through you.

Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert in this with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.

But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:

by great endurance, by afflictions,
by hardship, by difficulties,

In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to pass through many troubles on our way into the kingdom of God.”

But Paul went down, fell on him, embraced him, and said, “Don’t be alarmed, for his life is in him!”

Woe to those who rise early in the morning
in pursuit of beer,
who linger into the evening,
inflamed by wine.

A man who endures trials is blessed, because when he passes the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

Many adversities come to the one who is righteous,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble.
I will rescue him and give him honor.

Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials,