37 Bible Verses about Overcoming Adversity

These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Thy commandments are my delight.

Whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing the same sufferings are to be accomplished in the world by your brotherhood.

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that it was necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations.

For by thee I run upon a troop, and by my God I leap over a wall.

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

Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

Because of this take ye up the full armor of God, so that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

And not being frightened in anything by those who oppose, which is indeed a sign of destruction to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their life to the point of death.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,

At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh, nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted.

Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.

And I looked, and rose up, and said to the ranking men, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them. Remember LORD, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters

Consider [and] answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,

But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, [saying],

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

And LORD said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger.

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.

Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks. For it is necessary that the stumbling-blocks come, yet woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block comes.

So they shall fear the name of LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. For he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of LORD drives.

But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

Passing through the valley of weeping they make it a place of springs. Yea, the early rain covers it with blessings.

and in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot strong grizzled horses.

And he said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as LORD shall speak to me. And the rulers of Moab abode with Balaam.