38 Bible Verses about pressure

Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Thou hast brought us into the net; thou hast laid affliction upon our loins.

But without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life:

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

To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they relapse.

And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or by constraint: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

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.

And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

For, when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

But if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a turbid fountain, and a corrupt spring.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked should turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.