50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times
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If you do nothing in a difficult time,
your strength is limited.
Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength.
However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.
They will not be disgraced in times of adversity;
they will be satisfied in days of hunger.
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.
Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.
On the day I called, You answered me;
You increased strength within me.
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.
Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.
They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.
He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
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.
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.
The Rock—His work is perfect;
all His ways are entirely just.
A faithful God, without prejudice,
He is righteous and true.
rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with gratitude.
But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.
A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a difficult time.
Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Woe to those who rise early in the morning
in pursuit of beer,
who linger into the evening,
inflamed by wine.
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth:
Before the days of adversity come,
and the years approach when you will say,
“I have no delight in them”;
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!
Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.
Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.
The Lord God will help Me;
therefore I have not been humiliated;
therefore I have set My face like flint,
and I know I will not be put to shame.
And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
Being in anguish, He prayed more fervently, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
but their minds were closed. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
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.”
Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another.
Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
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.”
labor and hardship,
many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,
often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.
And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times.
Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself, for this will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
quenched the raging of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength after being weak, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.
We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,
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