33 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

Finally, my brothers, let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure.

having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.

but he who endures to the end will be saved.

But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come.

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

and endeavor to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace.

"It shall turn out for a testimony to you.

for then shall be a time of great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never shall be again.

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills.

(And being in agony he kept praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as if it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.)

Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Testament, the same veil rests thereon, because it is not revealed to them that in Christ the veil is taken away.

"Woe to women with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For sore anguish will come upon the land, and wrath upon all his people.

I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

And then many will stumble and fall, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."

in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness.

and at dawn you say, 'It will storm today, for the sky is red and lowering.' You know how to discern the look of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot read.

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Pray without ceasing.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, proved valiant in warfare, and routed armies of aliens.

as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.