48 Bible Verses about struggle

Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin:

And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;

Do not give way to him but be strong in your faith, in the knowledge that your brothers who are in the world undergo the same troubles.

Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

There will be no need for you to take up arms in this fight; put yourselves in position, and keep where you are, and you will see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: have no fear and do not be troubled: go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you.

Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.

And he said, Give ear, O Judah, and you people of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat: the Lord says to you, Have no fear and do not be troubled on account of this great army; for the fight is not yours but God's.

For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.

Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money

I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.

And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:

The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

For they are evil spirits, working signs; who go out even to the kings of all the earth, to get them together to the war of the great day of God, the Ruler of all.

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,

I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.

The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.