45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers;

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

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

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

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

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't 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, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble."

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

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

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

Out of my distress, I called on the LORD. The LORD answered me with freedom.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

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

There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is your treasure.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

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

The LORD said, "Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of distress.

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

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, Rejoice.

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

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up. I have overcome the world."

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will 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.