29 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

by waging the same conflict that, as once you saw and now you hear, I wage myself.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance;

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" ??of believers in particular.

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.

I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest.

I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes.

For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.

So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage;

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.

That being so, it is not I who do the deed but sin that dwells within me.

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

For I got no relief from the strain of things, even when I reached Macedonia; it was trouble at every turn, wrangling all round me, fears in my own mind.

For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,