53 Bible Verses about Hardship

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?

You have shown your people hard [things]; You have given us wine that staggers.

It shall not be hard in your eyes {when you send him forth free}, because for six years he has served you [worth] twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you {in whatever you will do}.

in connection with which I suffer misfortune to the point of {imprisonment} as a criminal, but the word of God is not bound.

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen {in the future}.

You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the [province of] Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond [our] strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

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

Suffer together with [me] as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.

And the Lord will give you [the] bread [of] distress and [the] water [of] oppression, but your teachers will not hide themselves any longer. And your eyes {shall see} your teachers.

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry,

And you have patient endurance, and have endured [many things] because of my name, and have not become weary.

For this [finds] favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows [while] suffering unjustly.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."

O Yahweh, remember with regard to David all his affliction.

And call me in [the] day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

Endure [it] for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son [is there] whom a father does not discipline?

in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

And if I parcel out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body in order that I will be burned, but do not have love, it benefits [me] nothing.

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

"And now our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God who keeps [his] covenant and loyal love, do not belittle in your presence all of the hardship that is found in us, our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all of our people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town [after town], saying that bonds and persecutions await me.

He delivers [the] afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity.

but commending ourselves as servants of God in every [way], in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties,

Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.

From Kadesh Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom: "Thus your brother Israel has said, 'You know all the hardship that has found us;

But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; {relief forces} [are] against me.

For [this is] not that for others [there may be] relief, [and] for you difficult circumstances, but [as a matter] of equality.

Blessed [is the one who] has regard for [the] poor; in [the] day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.

Misfortune will pursue sinners, but the righteous {will be rewarded with prosperity}.

They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heart not be glad

{Resist him}, steadfast in your faith, [because you] know the same [kinds] of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world.

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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

nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but with toil and labor, [we were] working night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you,