51 Bible Verses about Struggles

for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.

You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

But remember the former days in which, [after you] were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

having the same struggle which you saw in me and now hear about in me.

{Resist him}, steadfast in your faith, [because you] know the same [kinds] of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those [who are] in all affliction with the comfort with which [we] ourselves are comforted by God.

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,

For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},

For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies [are] {healthy}.

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, "{If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant}?" And she went to inquire of Yahweh.

For even [when] we arrived in Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were afflicted in every [way]--quarrels outside, fears within.

The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.

Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to contend along with me in your prayers on my behalf to God,

in the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and left hand,

And he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."

The blessing of Yahweh makes [one] rich, and he does not increase sorrow with it.

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

If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.

in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and all those who have not seen my face {in person},

because to you has been graciously granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on behalf of him,

For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!

Epaphras, who is [one] of you, greets you, a slave of Christ always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.

For in that which he himself suffered [when he] was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

And call me in [the] day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

Wretched man [that] I [am]! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God [did] from his own [works].

He struggled with [the] angel and prevailed; he pleaded for his mercy. He met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him.

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, [after you] have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, [and] establish [you].

For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

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

"If a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one [man] comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches [out] her hand and she seizes his genitals,

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,

Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.

But I am hard pressed {between the two options}, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, {for this is very much better}.

Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would depart from me.

And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn.