48 Bible Verses about Overcoming Hard Times

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

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.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

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

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

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

And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;