39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

Wretched man [that] I [am]! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

having the same struggle which you saw in me and now hear about in me.

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.

for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].

For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies [are] {healthy}.

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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

in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,

But remember the former days in which, [after you] were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

But I am hard pressed {between the two options}, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, {for this is very much better}.

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which he gives you under the sun, because this [is] your lot in life and in the toil with which you toil under the sun.

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree {from which I forbade you to eat}, the ground [shall be] cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat [from] it all the days of your life.

And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, "{If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant}?" And she went to inquire of Yahweh.

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},

For even [when] we arrived in Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were afflicted in every [way]--quarrels outside, fears within.

because to you has been graciously granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on behalf of him,

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,