45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of good enjoy that which is good, but in the day of adversity open your eyes and learn: God also has made the one (the day of adversity) before the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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

Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?

But the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; thy rain shall never more be taken away, but thine eyes shall see thy rain:

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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

and patience, experience; and experience, hope;

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

But no one shall say, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

But I will sing of thy power; I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning, for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore bled in the night and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

Did I not weep for the one that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

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

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me in their trouble.

Is anyone among you afflicted? let them pray. Is anyone happy? let them sing.

Man certainly has an appointed amount of time upon earth, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

Thou who hast caused me to see great and sore troubles, shalt return and quicken me and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Blessed is he that understands regarding the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

In the day when I called, thou didst answer me and strengthen me with strength in my soul.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of shaking.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle; in the secret of his tent shall he hide me; he shall set me high upon a rock.

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those that trust in him.

From a tight place I called upon JAH; and JAH answered me and set me in a wide place.

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

and thou shalt forget thy misery and remember it as waters that passed away;

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

He shall deliver the poor from his poverty, and in affliction shall open their ears.

They drink and forget their need and remember their misery no more.

And in thy times wisdom and knowledge, and the strength of salvation shall reign: the fear of the LORD shall be his treasure.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou dost love all the days which thou art to live in this lake of vanity, which are given unto thee; all the days of thy vanity under the sun: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour in which thou dost work under the sun.

The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

In the house of the righteous is much provision, but in the fruit of the wicked is trouble.

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy, for the sons are come to the breaking of the water, and there is no strength in her who is to bring them forth.

But bring to memory the former days, in which, after ye received the light, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

For man also does not know his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net and as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in the evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,

for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.