45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance.

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

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

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

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

"Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.

Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him;

On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.

You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.

For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.

and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.

let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.

Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

The LORD said, "Have I not set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?

In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.

They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.