50 Bible Verses about struggle
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You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,
But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.
“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
experiencing the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face,
but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the Lord is with you.”
But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why then am I this way?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich,
And He adds no sorrow to it.
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,
For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
and he said, “Listen, all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s.
For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
Cease from your consideration of it.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
“If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my struggle I will wait
Until my change comes.
No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;
Now when the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David went down and his servants with him; and as they fought against the Philistines, David became weary.
The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.
for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
“Is not man forced to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?
As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we fly away.
Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
“If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.
Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”
The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.
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