30 Bible Verses about Hardship

But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.

Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself.

I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

Is any one of you in trouble? Let him pray.

Take your share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;

You are holding fast, and have borne up for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even suffering unjustly.

Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships.

You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

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

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

except that in city after city the Holy Spirit is warning me that bonds and afflictions are awaiting me.

but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,

For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us.

Nor are other people to be relieved, and you to be distressed;

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.

because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.