38 Bible Verses about pressure

besides the things outside conspiring against me daily, the care of all the churches.

in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked, for they shake trouble over me, and in wrath they hate me.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; yet Your Commandments are my delight.

How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden and your strife?

You have brought us into the net; You have laid affliction on our loins.

But without your consent I was willing to do nothing, that your good should not be of necessity, but willingly.

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.

making a weight for the winds, and measuring out the waters by measure.

For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

and the cares of this world, and the deceit of riches, and the lust about other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

But they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Afterward when affliction or persecution arises for the Word's sake, they are immediately offended.

And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you by myself.

And I begged Jehovah at that time saying,

Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

To the Chief Musician, for stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness; You gave room to me in trouble; have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

And again a crowd came together, so that they could not even eat bread.

The heart of her husband trusts safely in her, so that he shall have no need of plunder.

For, indeed, coming into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but being troubled in every way, with fightings on the outside, and fears on the inside.

I called on Jehovah in distress; Jehovah answered me, and set me in a large place.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth fighting.

For so Jehovah spoke to me with a strong hand, and warned me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;

O earth, earth, earth! Hear the Word of Jehovah!

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the sons of Israel.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a rotten spring.

The spirit of a man will nourish his sickness, but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a bribe destroys the heart.

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Again, they have become few, and humbled through harshness, affliction, and sorrow.