51 Bible Verses about Struggles

whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places .

and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

If a man die, shall he live again ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise.

Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

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

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us,

Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.

For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do , forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.