26 Bible Verses about faith in hard times

Knowing, as you do, that the testing of your faith develops endurance.

For we know that trouble develops endurance, and endurance strength of character, and strength of character hope,

Be sure of this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

In just the same way faith, if not followed by actions, is, by itself, a lifeless thing.

Recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

And then many will fall away, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

Then will be your opportunity of witnessing for me.

It would, indeed, have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy Command delivered to them.

He will, I tell you, have justice done them, and that soon! Yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

I shall, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the Truth that you now hold.

"Give us more faith," said the Apostles to the Master;

Be watchful; stand firm in your faith; show yourselves men; be strong.

"Have faith in God!" replied Jesus.

For in it there is a revelation of the Divine Righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as Scripture says- -'Through faith the righteous man shall find Life.'

Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.

With that aim we toil and struggle, for we have set our hopes on the Living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who hold the Faith.

Do not forget your Leaders, the men who told you God's Message. Recall the close of their lives, and imitate their faith.

The prayer offered in faith will save the man who is sick, and the Lord will raise him from his bed; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

This I say, because you know the crisis that we have reached, for the time has already come for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; our Salvation is nearer now than when we accepted the Faith.

Pray in spirit at all times. Be intent upon this, with unwearying perseverance and supplication for all Christ's People- -

And receive 'the helmet of Salvation,' and 'the sword of the Spirit'--which is the Message of God--always with prayer and supplication.

Run the great race of the Faith, and win the Immortal Life. It was for this that you received the Call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of Faith.

Reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the Faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the Kingdom of God.

Let us maintain the confession of our hope unshaken, for he who has given us his promise will not fail us.

You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.