51 Bible Verses about Struggles

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Ye 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 high places.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

For that which I do I allow 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 ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

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

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

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

Strive to enter in at the strait 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, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

For there are no bands 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 flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth 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 ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

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

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

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

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

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

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

For I would that ye knew 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 thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye 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 hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour 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 lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye 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 thee, and thou shalt 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 hath 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 spake with us;

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

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured 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 for 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 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 betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

For 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.