50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times
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If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing that will come after him.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thus with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
We then that are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to 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 them who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God.
[To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah. A song upon alamoth.] God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times.
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are justice: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
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 you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflames them!
Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;
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 forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children have come to birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot 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 take pleasure 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 that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil not taken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ.
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that nurse children, 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 you might have peace. In the world you 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 faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and overcast. O you hypocrites, you can discern the appearance of the sky; but can you not discern 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 peril, or sword?
Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Then I commended mirth, 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 in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in war, turned to flight the armies of foreigners.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
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