51 Bible Verses about Struggles

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

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

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

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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

"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

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

He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

"Man, who 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 those who are tempted.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under 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 to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

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