48 Bible Verses about Overcoming Hard Times

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

Alas. for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

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."

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with open spaces and a moat, but in times of distress.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

"At that time shall Michael arise, the great prince who watches over the children of your people. And there shall be a time of distress unparalleled since the beginning of the nation until that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

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.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is your treasure.

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

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Therefore I will be ready always to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

The man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria just three times."

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

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

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

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:

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your struggle against sin;

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.

Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Do not be troubled, for his life is in him."

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them.

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.

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials,