34 Bible Verses about Adversity

My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations, knowing that the trying of your faith works patience. But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.

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

Do not fear; for I am with you; be not dismayed; for I am your God. I will make you strong; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.

A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.

Cast your burden on Jehovah, and He will keep you; He will never allow the righteous to waver.

I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.

but those who wait on Jehovah 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 but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.

For I know the purposes which I am purposing for you, says Jehovah; purposes of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory, we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are not lasting, but the things which are not seen are everlasting.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah. A Song "For the Virgins". God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Taste and see that Jehovah is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduces them.

and call on Me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

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

The righteous cry, and Jehovah hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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

To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His throne.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God is not tempted by evils, and He tempts no one. But each one is tempted by his lusts, being drawn away and seduced by them.read more.
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.

casting all your anxiety onto Him, for He cares for you.

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you, but rejoice according as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, so that when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;

No one has greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye has seen You.

And it happened when he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as he did his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him go home to his father's house any more. And Jonathan and David cut a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury, lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.