39 Bible Verses about Life Struggles

What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your struggle against sin;

"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him.

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

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up. I have overcome the world."

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been been grieved 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 both labor and strive, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

For I do not know what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

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

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of the LORD.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;