51 Bible Verses about Struggles

For which I also labor, striving according to his working, who works in me mightily.

You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

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

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight with afflictions;

Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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

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

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

For there are no pains 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 in us.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows not how to go to the city.

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

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

And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with men, and have prevailed.

The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;

If a man dies, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change comes.

In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials:

For I desire that you know what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

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

Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete 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 has suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are tempted.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

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

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

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own 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 in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, restore, establish, strengthen, settle you.

For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by his private parts:

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

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