39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.

For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

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

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn--fighting without and fear within.

For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,