37 Bible Verses about Overcoming Adversity

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Proverbs 1:27

When your dread comes like a storm
And your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.

Psalm 60:11

O give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain.

Psalm 119:143

Trouble and anguish have come upon me,
Yet Your commandments are my delight.

Job 15:24

“Distress and anguish terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,

Job 4:13

“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,
When deep sleep falls on men,

Job 5:22

“You will laugh at violence and famine,
And you will not be afraid of wild beasts.

Psalm 35:19

Do not let those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me;
Nor let those who hate me without cause wink maliciously.

Nehemiah 4:14

When I saw their fear, I rose and spoke to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people: “Do not be afraid of them; remember the Lord who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives and your houses.”

Psalm 13:3

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Psalm 22:7

All who see me sneer at me;
They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

Genesis 25:23

The Lord said to her,
“Two nations are in your womb;
And two peoples will be separated from your body;
And one people shall be stronger than the other;
And the older shall serve the younger.”

Genesis 14:14

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Obadiah 1:9

“Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman,
So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Matthew 18:7

“Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!

Isaiah 59:19

So they will fear the name of the Lord from the west
And His glory from the rising of the sun,
For He will come like a rushing stream
Which the wind of the Lord drives.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

Psalm 84:6

Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.

Zechariah 6:3

with the third chariot white horses, and with the fourth chariot strong dappled horses.

Numbers 22:8

He said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will bring word back to you as the Lord may speak to me.” And the leaders of Moab stayed with Balaam.

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