25 Bible Verses about Overcoming Hard Times

But of this be assured: in the last days grievous times will set in.

full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.

Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or hunger, nakedness or danger or the sword?

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

For every child of God overcomes the world; and the victorious principle which has overcome the world is our faith.

Then will many stumble and fall, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

Is one of you suffering? Let him pray. Is any one in good spirits? Let him sing a psalm.

Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandments in which they were instructed.

For this reason I shall always persist in reminding you of these things, although you know them and are stedfast believers in truth which you already possess.

In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power which His supreme might imparts.

And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!

Because in spite of suffering you have guarded My word, I in turn will guard you from that hour of trial which is soon coming upon the whole world, to put to the test the inhabitants of the earth.

for it will be a time of great suffering, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now, and assuredly never will be again.

but those who stand firm to the End shall be saved.

Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.

for it is not you who will speak: it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;

Everywhere they strengthened the disciples by encouraging them to hold fast to the faith, and warned them saying, "It is through many afflictions that we must make our way into the Kingdom of God."

Paul, however, went down, threw himself upon him, and folding him in his arms said, "Do not be alarmed; his life is still in him."

Blessed is he who patiently endures trials; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the victor's crown--even the crown of Life--which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it is a righteous thing for Him to requite with affliction those who are now afflicting you;

Reckon it nothing but joy, my brethren, whenever you find yourselves hedged in by various trials.