29 Bible Verses about struggle

As yet ye have not resisted unto blood, struggling against sin.

for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.

and patience, proof; and proof, hope;

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do.

But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

against whom stand fast, firm in the faith, knowing that the very same sufferings are fully endured by the brotherhood which is in the world.

Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.

experiencing the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear to be in me.

FOR I wish you to know how great a struggle I sustain for you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

Now I exhort you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you wrestle earnestly with me in prayers for me unto God;

who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we might be able to comfort those who are in all tribulation, by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

For the flesh hath appetites contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these act in opposition the one to the other: so that ye do not the things which ye would.

Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials:

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath rested from his works, as God did from his own.

For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Epaphras, one of you, saluteth you, a servant of Christ, always wrestling for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present moment are not worthy to be placed against the future glory that shall be revealed to us.

For therefore do we labour and are exposed to abuse, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience;

For they are the spirits of demons doing wonders, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole habitable globe, to gather them together unto the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?

Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before,

I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith: