48 Bible Verses about Overcoming Hard Times

But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.

For the music director; by the Korahites; according to the alamoth style; a song. God is our strong refuge; he is truly our helper in times of trouble.

If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

In times of prosperity be joyful, but in times of adversity consider this: God has made one as well as the other, so that no one can discover what the future holds.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

For this reason every one of your faithful followers should pray to you while there is a window of opportunity. Certainly when the surging water rises, it will not reach them.

The Lord is good -- indeed, he is a fortress in time of distress, and he protects those who seek refuge in him.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."

They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat.

So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times.

As for me, I will sing about your strength; I will praise your loyal love in the morning. For you are my refuge and my place of shelter when I face trouble.

because This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

"At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress unlike any other from the nation's beginning up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those whose names are found written in the book, will escape.

Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

But he replied, "You're talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?" In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

"Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me.

Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.

For this reason we do not fear when the earth shakes, and the mountains tumble into the depths of the sea,

From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit!

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

Because you have kept my admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

The prophet got angry at him and said, "If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! But now, you will defeat Syria only three times."

But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

But as God's servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.

They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, "We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions."

But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said, "Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!"

Those who get up early to drink beer are as good as dead, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

The godly face many dangers, but the Lord saves them from each one of them.

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.

My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,