34 Bible Verses about Adversity

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to purpose.

Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

(Cast thy burden upon LORD, and he will sustain thee. He will never allow the righteous man to be moved.)

These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day. For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness, while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.

Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

O taste and see that LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.

LORD upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

They cried, and LORD heard, and delivered them out of all their troubles.

Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.

What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

He who overcomes, I will give him to sit with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God is without temptation of evils, and he himself tempts no man. But each man is tempted by his own lust, being drawn away and enticed.read more.
Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.

having cast all your concern upon him, because he cares for you.

Beloved, ye should not be surprised at the fieriness in you, which occurs for a trial to you, like a strange thing happening to you. But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends.

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would no more let him go home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man, lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.