40 Bible Verses about Stress And Hard Times

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

[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.

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

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

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.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

And my people shall dwell in a peaceful habitation, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking toward those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

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

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, How shall we be clothed?

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a broad place.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;

And why take you thought for clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in its midst.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is skillful in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a handsome person, and the LORD is with him.

And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may settle with him; lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

And he came unto the disciples, and found them asleep, and said unto Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour?

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest perhaps the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,