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 you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope.

You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

If a man die, shall he revive? All the days of my warfare I will wait, until my change comes.

For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

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

holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

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

For there are no bands in their death; but their strength is fat.

I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you 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 coming glory to be revealed in us.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;

But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions,

For to this we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the preserver of all men, especially of those who believe.

They are not in trouble like 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 being in my members.

For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

For that which I do, I know not. For what I desire, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do.

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

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another; lest whatever you may will, these things you do.

I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with me.

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

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.

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

But now it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in 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, saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life.

And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If it is so, why am I this way? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

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

For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,

For, indeed, coming into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but being troubled in every way, with fightings on the outside, and fears on the inside.

For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,