30 Bible Verses about Hardship

But be thou watchful in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, give full proof of thy ministry.

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

for whose sake I suffer trouble even unto bonds, as if I were a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befel us in Asia, that we were exceedingly pressed above our strength, so that we despaired even of life:

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

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray: is any chearful? let him sing psalms.

Do thou therefore endure hardship, as becomes a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

And therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, and in straits for the sake of Christ: for when I am thus weak, then am I made strong.

in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: and beside these outward troubles,

and patience experience,

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

and for my name's sake thou hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

for this is an evidence of grace, if any one for conscience towards God endure griefs, suffering unjustly.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and telling them that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.

If ye endure chastening, God treateth you as sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not chastise?

In which ye rejoice, tho' now for a little while, if need be, ye are grieved through various trials.

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

And though I give all my substance to feed the poor, and my body to be burnt, and have not charity, I am nothing profited.

Though, if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: such however will probably have more trouble in life: but I spare you.

save that the holy Spirit testifieth in every city, that bonds and afflictions await me.

but in every thing approving ourselves as the ministers of God; by much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

And I account the sufferings of this present time not worthy to be set against the glory that shall be revealed to us.

For I do not mean that others should have relief, and you be burdened:

Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are endured by your brethren in the world.

knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience;

neither did we eat any one's bread for nothing; but with labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you.