50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

Wilt thou be discouraged in the day of straits thy strength is narrow.

As to the rest, my brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you.

They shall not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Ye shall give strong drink to him perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul

In the day of good, be in good; and in the day of evil, see thou: also God made this over against this, to the end that man shall not find anything after him.

In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord;

In the day I called, and thou wilt answer me; thou wilt enlarge me with strength in my soul.

By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:

And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves.

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.

To the overseer for the sons of Korah, with the female voice: a song. O God, to us refuge and strength, helping greatly, being found in straits

And thou shalt know and understand, from the going forth of the word to turn back and to build Jerusalem even to Messiah the leader, seventy weeks, and sixty and two weeks: and the street shall turn back and be built, and the ditch, in the trouble of the times.

The Rock, his work complete: For all his ways judgment: A God of faithfulness and not of iniquity Just and right is he.

For this the prudent one shall be silent in that time, for it is an evil time.

Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.

But he having persevered to the end, this shall be saved.

And this know, that in the last days difficult times shall interpose.

A friend loves in all time, and a brother shall be born for straits.

Watch and pray, lest ye come into temptation: truly the spirit of a ready will, and the flesh weak.

Striving earnestly to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them.

And remember him creating thee in the days of thy youth, till even when the days of evil shall not come, and the years draw near in which thou shalt say, Not to me delight in them;

And it shall turn out to you for a testimony.

For then shall be great pressure, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor should be.

Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.

To give rest to him from the days of evil, till the pit shall be dug for the unjust

And they will say to him, Thus said Hezekiah, A day of straits and chastisement and reproach, this day; for the sons came even to the breaking forth and not strength to bring forth.

And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope.

And the Lord Jehovah will help to me: for this I was not ashamed; for this I set my face as the flint, and I shall know that I shall not be ashamed.

Behold also ships, being so great, and driven by hard winds, are led by the smallest rudder, wherever the desire of him steering should will.

And being in a violent struggle, he prayed more intently: and his sweat was as clots of blood coming down upon the earth.

Therefore am I contented in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities in expulsions, in extremities for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant. remains not uncovered;for in Christ it is left unemployed.

And woe to them having in the womb, and to them giving suck, in those days! for there shall be great necessity upon the land, and anger upon this people.

These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world shall ye have pressure; but take courage; I have conquered the world.

And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another.

We should hold the assent of hope not bending; (for faithful he having promised;)

And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.

In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

And in the morning, Today, wintry weather: for heaven, being sad, is fiery red. Hypocrites, truly ye know to decide the face of heaven, but the signs of the times ye cannot.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.

Pray continually.

And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.

Quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, turned away the armies of strangers.

Remembering your work of faith, and fatigue of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father;