50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

If you fail in time of trouble your strength is small.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in his mighty strength.

If you marry you have not sinned. If a virgin marries she has not sinned. Those who marry will face many problems in this life and I want to spare you.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they will have abundance.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are bitter.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider that God made one as well as the other, to the end that man should find nothing that comes after him.

Do not lag behind in diligence. Be fervent in spirit serving God.

When I called, you answered me. You made me bold. You strengthened me.

With prayer and supplication pray at all times in the Spirit. Watch with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.

We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not just please ourselves.

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God.

([Sons of Korah]) God is our refuge and strength, a ready help in times of trouble.

Know and discern, that from the utterance of the commandment to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One (Messiah), the Leader: there shall be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again with a public square and moat, even in terrible times.

He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.

The prudent will keep silent for it is an evil time.

Keep your roots deep in him! Build your lives on him. Become stronger in your faith, as you were taught, and be filled with thanksgiving.

The person who endures to the end will be saved.

Know this also that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times will come.

A friend loves at all times. A true brother is born for adversity.

Watch and pray continually that you do not enter into temptation!

Diligently try to keep the unity (oneness) of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

How horrible it will be for those who get up early in the morning to look for a drink and who sit up late at night until they are drunk from wine.

Remember your Creator (Hebrew: Bara', plural, Creators denotes majesty) (Ge 1:26) in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near. You will say: I have no pleasure in them.

It will give you an opportunity to witness.

There will be great tribulation. It will be greater than any has ever been from the beginning of the world until now.

Hold fast to the word of life so I may rejoice in the day of Christ. That way I will not have labored in vain.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable. Always have plenty to do in the work of the Lord, for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

You give them rest from days of trouble until a pit is dug to trap the wicked.

They said to him: Hezekiah says: 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection. Children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

Tribulation produces an approved condition and an approved condition produces hope.

The Lord Jehovah helps me. That is why I will not be ashamed. I have set my face like a flint (firm and resolute). I know that I will not be put to shame.

Look at ships. They are large and are driven by rough winds. Yet a very small rudder can control them, wherever the captain wills.

(possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.

The proof of your faith is more precious than gold that perishes. Though it is tested by fire, it may be found in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Their minds were blinded. Until this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It is not revealed to them that Christ voided it.

Woe to those who are pregnant and those who nurse a child in those days! There will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.

I spoke to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation. Be of good cheer for I have conquered the world!

Many will stumble and betray and hate one another.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that promised.

They strengthened the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith. They said, We must enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation.

In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.

And in the morning, the weather will be bad today for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the time.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

I have been testing you for myself like silver. I have put you through the fire of trouble.

Pray without ceasing.

Then I commended enjoyment (pleasure), because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. That will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

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

We continually remember your work of faith, labor of love, and patience, and your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.