36 Bible Verses about Struggles

For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

For what I perform I know not; what I practise is not what I intend to do, but what I detest, that I habitually do.

But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

"Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,

For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us.

For even after I reached Macedonia, my flesh had no rest, but I was troubled on every hand. Without were fights; within were, fears.

Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense,

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships.

For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.

For it has been granted you in Christ's behalf, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,

For the good that I intend to do, I do not; but the evil which I do not; but the evil which I do not intend to do, that I am ever practising.

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

For inasmuch as he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted.

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

"We toil and agonize because our hopes are set on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all men,??f believers in particular.

Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,

I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp and to be with Christ, which is far better;

Concerning this, three times over I supplicated the Lord that it might leave me;