50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance.

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit,serve the Lord.

On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.

praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.

"The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

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

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

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

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

This will be your opportunity to bear witness.

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

But the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.

Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people.

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.'You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

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

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

pray without ceasing,

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.