34 Bible Verses about Adversity

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up. I have overcome the world."

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

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

For I know the plans that I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans for your welfare, and not for calamity, to give you hope and a future.

Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is wearing away, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Even 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 him who strengthens me.

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

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

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

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

They cried, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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

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

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.read more.
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

It happened, 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. Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Do not befriend a hot-tempered man, and do not associate with one who harbors anger: lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.