50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Give beer unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that have heavy hearts.

In the day of good enjoy that which is good, but in the day of adversity open your eyes and learn: God also has made the one (the day of adversity) before the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

not slothful in earnest care, but fervent in the Spirit, serving the Lord,

In the day when I called, thou didst answer me and strengthen me with strength in my soul.

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching in this with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

We then that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not please ourselves.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

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

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

Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to cause the people to return and to build Jerusalem unto the Anointed Prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks, while the street shall be built again and the wall, even in troublous times.

The strong One, whose work is perfect: for all his ways are right; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time.

rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

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

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

being diligent to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may continue their drunkenness; that continue until night until wine inflames them!

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth while the evil days do not come nor the years draw near when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

And it shall turn out to you for a testimony.

for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

to cause him to rest in the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy, for the sons are come to the breaking of the water, and there is no strength in her who is to bring them forth.

and patience, experience; and experience, hope;

For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore, I was not ashamed; therefore, I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Behold also the ships, which though they are so great are driven of fierce winds, yet they are governed with a very small rudder, wherever the governor desires.

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Therefore I am content in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake, for when I am weak, then am I strong.

that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest;

(And thus their senses became hardened, for until this day remains the same veil not uncovered in the reading of the old testament, which veil is taken away in Christ.

But woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.

let us hold fast the profession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that promised).

confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to remain in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

in labour and travail, in many watches, in hunger and thirst, in many fasts, in cold and nakedness.

And in the morning, It will be foul weather today, for the heaven has an aurora and is cloudy. O ye hypocrites, ye know how to make decisions based on the face of the heaven, and regarding the signs of the times are ye unable?

Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?

Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Pray without ceasing.

Therefore I commended joy because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry, for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered from infirmities, were made valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of foreign enemies;

remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,