39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear to be in me.

and patience, experience; and experience, hope;

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, fighting against sin.

Man certainly has an appointed amount of time upon earth, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait until my transformation comes.

in which I continue to labour, contending according to his operation, which he works in me mightily.

Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

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

holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Because there is no restraint that would bring about their death, but their strength is firm.

These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

For I know with certainty that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory which shall be manifested in us.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,

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

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,

But bring to memory the former days, in which, after ye received the light, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

For this we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto the law of sin which is in my members.

For I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better:

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou dost love all the days which thou art to live in this lake of vanity, which are given unto thee; all the days of thy vanity under the sun: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour in which thou dost work under the sun.

For that which I do, I do not understand, and not even the good that I desire is what I do; but what I hate, that is what I do.

For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not desire, that I do.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

So that, desiring to do good, I find this law: evil is natural unto me.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the lords of this age, rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, unto which thou art also called, having made a good profession before many witnesses.

And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.

So that it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And the sons struggled together within her; and she said, If this is so, why should I live? And she went to enquire of the LORD.

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us;

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

For unto you it is granted regarding Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,

And not only this, but we even glory in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation works patience;