53 Bible Verses about Hardship

But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

You have made Your people suffer hardship;
You have given us wine to drink
that made us stagger.

Do not regard it as a hardship when you set him free, because he worked for you six years—worth twice the wages of a hired hand. Then the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

I suffer for it to the point of being bound like a criminal, but God’s message is not bound.

If you do nothing in a difficult time,
your strength is limited.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

You caused me to experience
many troubles and misfortunes,
but You will revive me again.
You will bring me up again,
even from the depths of the earth.

For we don’t want you to be unaware, brothers, of our affliction that took place in Asia: we were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength—so that we even despaired of life.

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

labor and hardship,
many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,
often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.

The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression, but your Teacher will not hide Himself any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher,

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

endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

by beatings, by imprisonments,
by riots, by labors,
by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,

You also possess endurance and have tolerated many things because of My name and have not grown weary.

For it brings favor if, mindful of God’s will, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.

strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to pass through many troubles on our way into the kingdom of God.”

A song of ascents.Lord, remember David
and all the hardships he endured,

Call on Me in a day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials

For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,
and if I give my body in order to boast
but do not have love, I gain nothing.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

So now, our God—the great, mighty,
and awe-inspiring God who keeps His gracious covenant—
do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us,
our kings and leaders,
our priests and prophets,
our ancestors and all Your people,
from the days of the Assyrian kings until today.

Trouble and distress have overtaken me,
but Your commands are my delight.

except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction;
He instructs them by their torment.

But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:

by great endurance, by afflictions,
by hardship, by difficulties,

For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says, ‘You know all the hardships that have overtaken us.

But as for you, be strong; don’t be discouraged, for your work has a reward.”

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

You produce new witnesses against me
and multiply Your anger toward me.
Hardships assault me, wave after wave.

It is not that there may be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality—

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Happy is one who cares for the poor;
the Lord will save him in a day of adversity.

Disaster pursues sinners,
but good rewards the righteous.

They are not in trouble like others;
they are not afflicted like most people.

A man who endures trials is blessed, because when he passes the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

Don’t gloat when your enemy falls,
and don’t let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

Resist him and be firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.

Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
He has veiled my paths with darkness.

we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and struggled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.