50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

If you are slack in the day of distress,
Your strength is limited.

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

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
And wine to him whose life is bitter.

In the day of prosperity be happy,
But in the day of adversity consider—
God has made the one as well as the other
So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.

not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

On the day I called, You answered me;
You made me bold with strength in my soul.

With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.

being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah, set to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.

So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

“The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.

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

having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.

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

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.

Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink,
Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no delight in them”;

It will lead to an opportunity for your testimony.

For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

That You may grant him relief from the days of adversity,
Until a pit is dug for the wicked.

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

For the Lord God helps Me,
Therefore, I am not disgraced;
Therefore, I have set My face like flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.

Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires.

And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.”

I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

pray without ceasing;

So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,