30 Bible Verses about Hardship

But be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully accomplish your ministry.

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

wherein I am suffering hardship, even to bonds, as a malefactor; but the Word of God has not become bound.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our tribulation which befell us in Asia; that we were exceedingly weighed down beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

These things have I spoken to you, that in Me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

Is anyone among you afflicted? let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? let him sing praise.

Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Wherefore, 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 powerful.

in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

and patience, approval; and approval, hope;

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings;

and you have patience, and did bear for My name's sake, and have not grown weary.

For this is acceptable, if, for conscience toward God, one endures griefs, suffering wrongfully.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

For chastening endure ye: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chastens not?

in which ye exult, though now, for a little while, if necessary, made sorrowful in manifold temptations;

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

And, if I bestow in morsels all my goods; and, if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, I am profited nothing.

But, even if you marry, you did not sin; and, if a virgin marry, she did not sin. Yet such will have tribulation in the flesh; and I am sparing you.

except that the Holy Spirit testifieth to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory about to be revealed for us.

For it is not that there may be relief to others, but distress to you;

Happy is a man who endures temptation; because, when he becomes approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him.

whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

knowing that the proving of your faith establishes patience.

nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;