40 Bible Verses about Stress And Hard Times

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

God [is] our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles.

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember [any] more.

And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day [is] a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to [the] cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth.

Therefore let all [the] faithful pray to you at [the] time [for] finding [you]. Surely at [the] flood of many waters they will not reach him.

We are afflicted in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.

"And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity from the noise of the sea and [its] surging,

people fainting from fear and expectation of what is coming on the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

He is not afraid of bad news; his heart [is] steadfast, secure in Yahweh.

If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

And {David was in a very precarious situation}, for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each [one] over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Now may the Lord of peace himself grant you peace through everything in every way. [May] the Lord [be] with all of you.

Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?,'

Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those {in bitter distress}.

But Hannah answered and said, "No, my lord. I am a woman {deeply distressed}, but I have not drunk wine [or] strong drink. [Rather], I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.

Out of [my] distress I called to Yah. Yah answered me, [setting me] in a broad place.

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not toil or spin,

A bad tooth and a lame foot [is] the trust of a faithless person {in a time} of trouble.

Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled [with] feasts of strife.

And Yahweh said to him, "Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and you must place a mark on the foreheads of the men {who are groaning and lamenting} about all of the detestable things {that are being done} in the midst of her."

For [it is] impossible [concerning] those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit,

Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that [it is] good for a man to be thus.

So then also those who suffer according to the will of God must entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing good.

One of the servants answered and said, "Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite [who is] skillful in playing a stringed instrument, a {brave man, a warrior, prudent in speech, and handsome}. And Yahweh [is] with him."

And Zacchaeus stopped [and] said to the Lord, "Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I am giving to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I am paying [it] back four times [as much]!"

And he went around through all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

For as you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to come to a settlement with him on the way, so that he will not drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison.

And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "So, were you not able to stay awake with me one hour?

All these were busily engaged with one mind in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

But when the one who set me apart from my mother's womb and called [me] by his grace was pleased

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born [when he] is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb for the second time and be born, [can he]?"

Thus the last will be first and the first last."

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for [there] is no authority except by God, and those that exist are put in place by God.

in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust.

And when Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them the way of the land of the Philistines, though it [was] nearer, because God said, "Lest the people change their mind when they see war and return to Egypt."

And he appointed judges in the land and in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.