34 Bible Verses about Adversity

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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

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

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yes, I will help thee; yes, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will have tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.

But they that wait upon the 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.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is wasted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not 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.

Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shades of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth 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 seduceth them.

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

The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that are bowed down.

The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Come to me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father on his throne.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.read more.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you: But rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye seeth 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 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.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

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