38 Bible Verses about pressure

Apart from these external things, [there is] the pressure on me every day of the anxiety about all the churches.

We are afflicted in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

But [we] ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

because of [the] voice [of] an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge [against] me.

Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me.

How can I bear you {by myself}, your burden and your load and your strife?

You brought us into the net; you placed a {heavy burden} on our backs.

But apart from your consent, I wanted to do nothing, in order that your good [deed] might be not as according to necessity, but according to [your own] free will.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the [province of] Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond [our] strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

{When he gave} weight to the wind and he apportioned [the] waters by measure,

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.

and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other [things] come in [and] choke the word and it becomes unproductive.

And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Then [when] affliction or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

"And I spoke to them at that time, {saying}, 'I am not able to bear you alone.

"And I pleaded with Yahweh at that time, saying,

Each one [should give] as he has decided in his heart, not {reluctantly} or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness. In trouble {deliver me}. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

And he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they were not even able to eat a meal.

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and gain he will not lack.

For even [when] we arrived in Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were afflicted in every [way]--quarrels outside, fears within.

Out of [my] distress I called to Yah. Yah answered me, [setting me] in a broad place.

A man of want [is] he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

And I will bring the [remaining] third into the fire, and I will refine them like [one] refines silver, and I will test them like [one] tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'Yahweh [is] my God.'"

For pressing milk produces curd, and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing {anger} produces strife.

For Yahweh said this to me {while his hand weighed heavily on me}, and he {warned me not to walk} in the way of this people, saying,

Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle.

land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh.

with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.

And as he oppressed them, so they became many, and so they spread out, and [the Egyptians] were afraid because of the presence of the {Israelites}.

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

[Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.

The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it?

Surely oppression makes a fool of the wise, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Say to them, '{As I live},' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, '{Surely I have no delight} in the death of the wicked, {except} in [the] wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil [ones], for why should you die, house of Israel?'

When they become few and they are bent down from [the] oppression of calamity and grief,