51 Bible Verses about Struggles

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

But the children struggled inside her, and she said, "If it is going to be like this, I'm not so sure I want to be pregnant!" So she asked the Lord,

For even when we came into Macedonia, our body had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way -- struggles from the outside, fears from within.

The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,

"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

The blessing from the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face.

For it has been granted to you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him,

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again!

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

For since he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

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

For the one who enters God's rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him!

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

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

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?

If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.