37 Bible Verses about Struggles

To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me.

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope;

For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.

But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.

maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.

Withstand him, firm in your faith; knowing that your brethren in other parts of the world are passing through just the same experiences.

He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

"Strain every nerve to force your way in through the narrow gate," He answered; "for multitudes, I tell you, will endeavour to find a way in and will not succeed.

For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a preponderating, yes, a vastly preponderating, and eternal weight of glory;

Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.

For even after our arrival in Macedonia we could get no relief such as human nature craves. We were greatly harassed; there were conflicts without and fears within.

But I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love which His Spirit inspires, to help me by wrestling in prayer to God on my behalf,

by the proclamation of the truth, by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness, wielded in both hands;

And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;

Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.

For I would have you know in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,

For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ--not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf;

For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

For inasmuch as He has Himself felt the pain of temptation and trial, He is also able instantly to help those who are tempted and tried.

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.

For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?

For He who has been admitted to His rest, has rested from His works as God did from His.

Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

And God, the giver of all grace, who has called you to share His eternal glory, through Christ, after you have suffered for a short time, will Himself make you perfect, firm, and strong.

and here is the motive of our toiling and wrestling, because we have our hopes fixed on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, and especially of believers.

Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,

I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better.

As for this, three times have I besought the Lord to rid me of him;