53 Bible Verses about Hardship

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

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

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

It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!

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

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.

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.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.

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."

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

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

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.

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

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

Remember, O LORD, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured,

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

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

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

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

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.

"Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.

Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.

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

but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,

For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded."

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.

For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness

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

Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good.

They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.