37 Bible Verses about Overcoming Adversity

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the deliverance of man.

Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands are my delights.

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

For by Thee I run -- a troop! And by my God I leap a wall.

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life -- unto death;

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

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.

through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --

At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

Mine enemies rejoice not over me with falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.

And I see, and rise up, and say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, 'Be not afraid of them; the Lord, the great and the fearful, remember ye, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.'

Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,

And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head,

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

And Jehovah saith to her, 'Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the one people than the other people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'

And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan.

And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.

'Woe to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!

And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from the rising of the sun -- His honour, When come in as a flood doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him.

And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

Those passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.

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

and he saith unto them, 'Lodge here to-night, and I have brought you back word, as Jehovah speaketh unto me;' and the princes of Moab abide with Balaam.