17 Bible Verses about Adversity

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall in with manifold temptations; knowing that the proving of your faith establishes patience. And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

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

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

A temptation has not taken you, except 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 make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Wherefore, we faint not; but even if our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day. For our momentary light tribulation is working out for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

I am strong enough for all things in Him Who strengtheneth me.

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

"Come to me, all ye who are laboring and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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

He that overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with Me in My throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with My Father in His throne.

Happy is a man who endures temptation; because, when he becomes approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him. Let no one, when tempted, say, "I am tempted from God"; for God cannot be tempted with evils, and He Himself tempteth no one. But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed.read more.
Then the desire, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.

having cast all your anxiety on Him, because He careth for you.

Beloved, be not surprised at the fiery-test taking place among you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened to you; but, in so far as ye share in Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of His glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, is going about, seeking whom he may devour;

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