50 Bible Verses about struggle

For ye have not yet resisted unto blood shedding, striving against sin.

Wherein I also labour and strive, even as far forth as his working worketh in me mightily.

patience bringeth experience, experience bringeth hope,

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood: but against rule, against power, and against worldly rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness for heavenly things.

because I know not what I do. For what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

Call to remembrance the days that are passed in the which, after ye had received light, ye endured a great fight in adversities,

whom resist, steadfast in the faith, remembering that ye do but fulfill the same afflictions which are appointed to your brethren that are in the world.

"Strive with yourselves to enter in at the strait gate: For many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

and have even the same fight which ye saw me have and now hear of me.

I would ye knew what fighting I have for your sakes, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my person in the flesh,

But I see another law in my members rebelling against the law of my mind, and subduing me unto the law of sin, which is in my members.

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

I beseech you brethren for our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the spirit, that ye help me in my business, with your prayers to God for me,

which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye cannot do that which ye would.

Moreover, it belongeth not to you for to fight this quarrel: but step forth and stand and behold the help of the LORD which is with you: fear not, nor let your heart fail you, O ye of Judah and of Jerusalem. Tomorrow go out to them: for the LORD is with you."

Darest thou lay hand upon him? It is better for thee to consider what harm might happen thee therethrough, and not to touch him.

And the children strove together within her. Then she said, "If it should go so to pass, what helpeth it that I am with child?" And she went and asked the LORD.

The blessing of the LORD, maketh rich men; as for careful travail, it doth nothing thereto.

in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season - if need require - ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,

For he that is entered into his rest doth cease from his own works, as God did from his.

And he said, "Hearken all Judah and the inhabiters of Jerusalem, and also king Jehoshaphat! Thus sayeth the LORD unto you: 'Be not afeard or faint hearted by reason of this great multitude. For the war is not yours, but God's.

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

Epaphras the servant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and always laboureth fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect, and full in all that is the will of God.

For the LORD thy God goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.'

Take not over great travail and labour to be rich, beware of such a purpose.

For I suppose that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory which shall be showed upon us.

For therefore we labour and suffer rebuke, because we believe in the living God, which is the saviour of all men: but specially of those that believe.

May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.

Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.

And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:

O how good is it, for a man, to take the yoke upon him from his youth up?

Neither do we so, only: but also we rejoice in tribulation: For we know that tribulation bringeth patience,

For they are in no peril of death, but stand fast like a palace.

And the Philistines had yet again war with Israel. And David went down, and his servants with him, and fought with the Philistines.

Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle:

For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, to go out unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God almighty.

Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant?

The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

O wretched man that I am: who shall deliver me from this body of death?

And the LORD said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for they are flesh. Nevertheless I will give them yet space, a hundred and twenty years."

Brethren, I count not myself that I have gotten it: but one thing I say: I forget that which is behind me, and stretch myself unto that which is before me;

I have fought a good fight, and have fulfilled my course, and have kept the faith.

"When men strive and smite a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her and yet no misfortune followeth: then shall he be amerced, according as the woman's husband will lay to his charge, and he shall pay as the daysmen appoint him.

And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me."

The labour of the foolish is grievous unto them, while they know not how to go in to the city.