29 Bible Verses about struggle

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

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.

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,

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.

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

For they are the spirits of demons working marvels--spirits that go out to control the kings of the whole earth, to assemble them for the battle which is to take place on the great day of God, the Ruler of all.

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

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 have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded the faith.