53 Bible Verses about Hardship

But you watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry.

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

You have shown your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

It shall not seem hard unto you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.

In which I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; 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, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing that will come after him.

You, who have showed me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life:

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

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

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall your teachers not be moved into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:

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

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

But he said unto her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

And have endured, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, and have not fainted.

For this is commendable, if a man for conscience toward God endures grief, suffering wrongfully.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

[A song of ascents.] LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:

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

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials:

For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be a burden unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before you, that has come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.

Except that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

But in all things presenting ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, you know all the travail that has befallen us:

Be you strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes and war are ever with me.

For I mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened:

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Evil pursues sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:

Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you: