30 Bible Verses about Hardship

But watch thou in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully discharge thy ministry.

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

for which I suffer affliction, even unto chains as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the tribulation which came to us in Asia, that above measure we have been burdened beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life:

These things have I spoken to you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.

Is any man among you under afflictions? let him pray. Is any man happy in mind? let him sing psalms.

Thou therefore endure hardships, as a brave soldier of Jesus Christ.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

in labour and travail, in watchings often, in fastings frequently, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness;

and patience, proof; and proof, hope;

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

and hast borne, and hast exercised patience, and for my name sake hast endured great toil, and hast not fainted.

For this is gracious conduct, if for conscience towards God, any man undergo sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

strengthening the souls of the brethren, exhorting them to abide firm in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must pass into the kingdom of heaven.

If ye patiently endure correction, God carries himself towards you as his children: for who is the son whom the father doth not correct?

Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials:

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

And if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it.

But if thou shouldst marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned; though such will have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

only this, that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and tribulation await thee.

but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present moment are not worthy to be placed against the future glory that shall be revealed to us.

For I mean not that there should be ease for others and a burden on you;

Blessed is the man who patiently supports temptation: for when he is proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to those who love him.

against whom stand fast, firm in the faith, knowing that the very same sufferings are fully endured by the brotherhood which is in the world.

knowing that the proof of your faith produceth patience.

neither did we eat bread with any man unpaid for, but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might be burdensome to none of you: