25 Bible Verses about Overcoming Hard Times

But this know, that in the last days there will be difficult times;

Rejoicing in hope, patient under affliction, persevering in prayer,

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

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have trouble: but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

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

and then will many take offense, and betray one another, and hate one another: and many false prophets will rise up and deceive many:

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray: is any chearful? let him sing psalms.

knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience;

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

Wherefore I will not neglect to put you always in mind of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth.

Moreover, my brethren, strengthen yourselves in the Lord, and in his mighty power.

But wo to 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 is to come upon the whole world, to try those that dwell upon the earth.

for there shall be then great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world unto this time, no, nor ever shall be.

But he that endures to the end, shall be saved:

In which ye rejoice, tho' now for a little while, if need be, ye are grieved through various trials.

but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh by you.

praying at all seasons with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance, and intercession for all the saints;

but in every thing approving ourselves as the ministers of God; by much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

for ye have not resisted unto blood in striving against sin.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and telling them that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.

And Paul went down and leaned over him, and took him up and said, Be not disturbed; for his life is in him.

Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved 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 render affliction to those that afflict you;

Account it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials: