39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

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

since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

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

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

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

They are immune to the trouble common to men; they do not suffer as other men do.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

But the children struggled inside her, and she said, "If it is going to be like this, I'm not so sure I want to be pregnant!" So she asked the Lord,

If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

For even when we came into Macedonia, our body had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way -- struggles from the outside, fears from within.

For it has been granted to you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him,

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,