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, striving against sin.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

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

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

For there are no bands in 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 reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

For therefore 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, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

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

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

For the flesh lusteth 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.

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth 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 is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

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 given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;