50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

In the day I called, when Thou dost answer me, Thou dost strengthen me in my soul with strength.

through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --

And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

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

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. 'For the Virgins.' -- A song. God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader is seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times.

The Rock! -- perfect is His work, For all His ways are just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright is He.

Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it is.

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, 'I have no pleasure in them.'

and it shall become to you for a testimony.

for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

and they say unto him, 'Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, is this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

And the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Therefore I have not been ashamed, Therefore I have set my face as a flint, And I know that I am not ashamed.

lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

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

may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful is He who did promise),

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red -- gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able!

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

Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.

continually pray ye;

And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,