35 Bible Verses about Striving With God
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And we having all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why drivest thou me out? hard for thee to kick against goads.
And behold, with us God for head, and his priests and trumpets of loud noise to cry against you. O ye sons of Israel, ye shall not wage war with Jehovah God of your fathers, for ye shall not prosper.
Counsel ye, counsel, and it shall be dispersed; speak the word and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
If therefore God gave the like gift to them as also to us, having believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; how was I able to hinder God
The kings of the earth will place themselves, and the princes sat down together against Jehovah and against his Messiah. We will tear away his bands, and we will cast away his cords from us. He dwelling in the heavens shall laugh: Jehovah shall deride to them.read more.
Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and in his burning shall he tery them.
All the days the unjust one himself being pained, and numbering the years they were hidden to him terrifying. The voice of fears in his ears: in peace he destroying shall come upon him. He will not believe to turn back from darkness, and he was waited for by the sword.read more.
He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his hand. Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war. For he stretched forth his hand against God, and he will strengthen himself against the Almighty. He will run against him upon the neck, upon the thicknesses of his shields:
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.
Surely, O man, who art thou replying against God? Shall the formation say to him having formed, Why hest thou made me so
Shall he contending with the Almighty, instruct? he reproving God shall answer it
Wo to him striving with him forming him! the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him forming it, What wilt thou make? and thy work, No hands to it? Wo to him saying to the father, What wilt thou beget? and to the woman, What wilt thou bring forth? Thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his potter, Ask me of things coming concerning the sons, and concerning the work of my hands will ye command me?
And all the assembly will lift up and give their voice; and the people will weep in that night And all the children of Israel will murmur against Moses, and against Aaron; and all the assembly will say to them, Would we died in the land of Egypt! or in this desert would that we died! And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt?read more.
And they will say, a man to his brother, We will give a head, and turn back to Egypt
These the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he will be consecrated in them.
Ye shall not harden your heart as the strife, as the day of trial in the desert: When your fathers tempted me, they proved me; also they saw my works.
And if it is of God, ye cannot destroy it; lest ye also be found contenders against God.
And David will say to him of the rovers, Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield, and I come to thee in the name of Jehovah of armies, the God of the ranks of Israel, which thou didst upbraid.
This the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion despising to thee, deriding to thee; the daughter of Jerusalem shook her head after thee. Whom didst thou reproach and revile, and against whom didst thou raise up the voice, and wilt thou lift up thine eyes on high to the Holy One of Israel? By the hand of thy servants thou didst reproach Jehovah, and wilt thou say, By the multitude of my chariots I came up to the height of the mountains, to the thighs of Lebanon; and I will cut down the stature of his cedars, the choicest of his cypresses: and I will go into the height of his extremity, the forest of his Carmel.read more.
I dug and drank water; and I will dry up with the sole of my footstep all the rivers of Egypt,
And having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, Why drivest thou me out? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou drivest out: hard for thee to kick against goads.
And Jacob will be left alone by himself, and a man will wrestle with him till the ascending of the morning. And he will see thathewill not prevail over him and he will touch upon the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh will be alienated in his wrestling with him. And he will say, Send me away, for the morning ascended: and he will say, I will not send thee away, unless thou didst bless me.read more.
And he will say to him, What thy name? and he will say, Jacob. And he will say, Thy name shall no more be said Jacob, but Israel, for thou wert a prince with God and with men, and thou shalt prevail.
And a contention to Jehovah with Judah, and to review Jacob according to his ways; he will turn back to him according to his doings. In the belly he circumvented his brother, and by his strength he was a leader with God. And he will be a leader to the messenger, and he will prevail: he wept, and he will make supplication to him: in the house of God he will find him, and there he will speak with him.read more.
And Jehovah God of armies, Jehovah his remembrance.
And in this I myself attend carefully, to have a conscience unhurt towards God and men always.
Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin. For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do. And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good.read more.
And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me. For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not. For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do. And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me. I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me. For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within: And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members. I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.
And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air: But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.
To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death; If somehow I shall arrive at the rising up of the dead. Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.read more.
Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
For, for this also we are wearied and reproached, that we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, chiefly of the faithful.
Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.
And none calling upon thy name, none rousing himself to take hold upon thee: for thou hiddest thy face from us, and thou wilt melt us by the hand of our iniquities.
And being in a violent struggle, he prayed more intently: and his sweat was as clots of blood coming down upon the earth.
And Moses will turn back to Jehovah, and he will say, My Lord, why didst thou evil to this people? wherefore for this didst, thou send me? And from the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he did evil to this people: and delivering, thou didst not deliver thy people.
And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see me.
Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou cast off my soul? wilt thou hide thy face from me? I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed. Upon me thy burnings passed over; thy terrors made me silentread more.
They surrounded me as water all the day; they folded round about me together. Thou didst remove far from me lover and friend, mine acquaintance into darkness.
How long, O Jehovah, did I cry for help, and thou wilt not bear? I will cry to thee violence, and thou wilt not save. Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up. For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.
