45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing that will come 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.

[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.

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

And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall your teachers not be moved into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:

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

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor 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 them who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

But I will sing of your power; yea, I will sing aloud of your mercy in the morning: for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

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

Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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

Therefore pray not you 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 for their trouble.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

You, who have showed me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.

You have shown your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret place of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials:

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

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a broad place.

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

Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

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

He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

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

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you perform under the sun.

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

In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the income of the wicked is trouble.

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

And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children have come to birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight with afflictions;

For man also knows not his time: as the fish 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 an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you 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.