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 trembling.

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

in which I suffer ill as an evildoer, even to bonds. But the Word of God is not chained.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity take note that God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up.

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

I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. 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 cheerful? Let him sing psalms.

Therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;

And Jehovah gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction; yet your teachers shall not be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.

and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope.

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

in stripes, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

And you have borne, and have patience, and for My name's sake you have labored and have not fainted.

For this is a grace, if for conscience toward God anyone endures grief, suffering wrongfully.

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

A Song of degrees. O Jehovah, remember David and all his afflictions,

and call on Me in the day of trouble; and 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 does not chasten?

in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;

For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. For laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.

And though I give out all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, I am profited nothing.

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

And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful God, who keeps covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers, 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 to this day, seem little before You.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; yet Your Commandments are my delight.

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 by oppression.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,

For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring up out of the ground;

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, So says your brother Israel, You know all the trouble that has happened to us,

But you be strong and do not let 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 coming glory to be revealed in us.

You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger on me; changes and warfare are against me.

For it is not that others may have ease, but you trouble;

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he who acts wisely toward the poor; Jehovah will deliver him in time of trouble.

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

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

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

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

whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood.

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

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

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

neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you