52 Bible Verses about Hardship

But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.

Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.

So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:

A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;

And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.

For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done.

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;

It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.

He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,

For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;

But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.

They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

Do not give way to him but be strong in your faith, in the knowledge that your brothers who are in the world undergo the same troubles.

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you: