50 Bible Verses about struggle

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

"Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

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

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you."

Lay your hands on him; remember the battle--you will not do it again!

The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.

And he said, "Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the LORD to you, 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's.

For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.'

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.

No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.

There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary.

The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

"When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.