50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

But if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.

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

Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that are of heavy hearts.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

In the day when I cried thou didst answer me, and strengthen me with strength in my soul.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for this purpose with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity: just and right is he.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times will come.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Woe to them that rise early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflameth them!

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Behold also the ships, which though they are so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm, withersoever the governor willeth.

And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though tried with fire, might be found to praise, and honor, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

But their minds were blinded: for until this day the same vail remaineth untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will have tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.

And then will many be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised:

Confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

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

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Pray without ceasing.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;