37 Bible Verses about Overcoming Adversity

These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.

Give us help from trouble, for vain is the salvation of man.

Trouble and anguish found me; but thy commandments were my delights.

resist him steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are to be accomplished in the company of your brethren that are in the world.

Tribulation and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to remain in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

For with thee I have scattered armies; and in my God I have overcome walled defenses.

Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

Therefore, take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and stand fast, all the work having been finished.

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of saving health and that of God.

And they have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

In imaginations of visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,

No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching in this with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth;

Brethren, if anyone is overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.

Let not those that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those that hate me wink with the eye without a cause.

Then I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, Do not be afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God and set a watch over the builders day and night because of them.

But he said unto her, Thou hast spoken as any of the foolish women speak. 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 that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of 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 armed his tried and experienced servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed because every man shall be cut off from mount of Esau by the slaughter.

Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he shall come like a violent river impelled by the breath of the LORD.

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime didst receive thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted here, and thou art tormented.

who passing through the valley of Baca, shall make it a well; the rain also shall fill the pools.

in the third chariot white horses and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.

And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will recite the words unto you when the LORD shall speak unto me. So the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.