39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

Wretched, man am, I! Who shall rescue me out of this body doomed to death?

Having, the same contest, which ye have seen in me, and now hear to be in me.

And, our endurance, a testing, and, our testing, hope,

Not yet unto blood, have ye resisted, against sin, waging a contest;

Is there not a warfare to a mortal, upon earth? And, as the days of a hireling, are not his days?

If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -

Unto which I am even toiling, contending according to his energy which is energising itself in me with power.

Happy the man who endureth temptation! Because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of life - which he hath promised unto them that love him.

Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:

A word of light, holding forth, - as a matter of boasting unto me, for the day of Christ, - that, not in vain, I ran, nor, in vain, I toiled: -

The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

For they have no pangs in their death, And vigorous is their body;

These things, have I spoken unto you, that, in me, ye may have, peace: In the world, ye have, tribulation; but be taking courage, - I, have overcome the world.

For I reckon that unworthy are the sufferings of the present season to be compared with the glory about to be revealed towards us;

If, however, thou shouldst even marry, thou hast not sinned; and, if one who is virgin should marry, that one hath not sinned; - but, tribulation of the flesh, shall, such, have: - howbeit, I, spare you.

Taking note, that, the proving of your faith, worketh out endurance;

Who encourageth us in all our tribulation, to the end we may be able to encourage them who are in any tribulation - through means of the encouragement wherewith we, ourselves, are encouraged by God.

Wherein ye exult, though, for a little, just now, if needful, put to grief in manifold temptations,

But be calling to mind the former days, in which, once ye were illuminated, a great combat of sufferings, ye endured; -

For, to this end, are we toiling and contending, because we have set our hope on a Living God, Who is Saviour of all men - specially, of such as believe.

Of the toil of weak mortals, have they none, Nor, with the sons of earth, are they hard smitten.

But I behold a diverse law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin which existeth in my members: -

I am held in constraint, however, by reason of the two, - having, the coveting, to be released, and to be with, Christ, for it were far better!

Enjoy life, with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity, - for, that, is thy portion in life, and in thy toil wherewith, thou, art toiling under the sun.

For, that which I am working out, I do not approve, - for not, what I wish, the same I practise, but, what I hate, the same I do:

For not, the good that I wish, I do, but, the evil that I do not wish, the same I practise.

For, the flesh, coveted against the Spirit, but, the Spirit, against the flesh, - for, these, unto one another, are opposed, lest, whatsoever things ye chance to desire, these, ye should be doing!

Hence, I find the law, to me who wish to be doing the right, that, unto me, the wrong lieth near:

Because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but, against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-holders, of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies.

Be contesting the noble contest of the faith, - lay hold of the age-abiding life - unto which thou wast called, and didst make the noble confession before many witnesses.

I know, in fact, that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, anything good; for, the wishing, lieth near me, but, the working out of what is right, not!

Now, however, no longer am, I, working it out, but the, sin, that dwelleth in me:

And, to the man, he said, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life;

And the sons within her struggled together, so she said - If so, wherefore now am, I, thus ? And she went to seek Yahweh.

Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.

For, the momentary lightness of thee tribulation, in a manner yet more and more excelling, is working out for us, an age-abiding weight of glory, -

For, even when we came into Macedonia, no relief at all, had our flesh; but, in every way, were we in tribulation, - without, fightings! within, fears!

Because, unto you, hath it been given as a favour, in behalf of Christ, not only, on him, to believe, but also, in his behalf, to suffer: -

And, not only so, but let us boast also in our tribulations; knowing that, our tribulation, worketh out endurance.