50 Bible Verses about struggle

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

I labor for this, striving with His strength that works powerfully in me.

endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.

For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.

Resist him and be firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able

having the same struggle that you saw I had and now hear that I have.

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

But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

If you do nothing in a difficult time,
your strength is limited.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

Now I appeal to you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join with me in fervent prayers to God on my behalf.

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

You do not have to fight this battle. Position yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. He is with you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Tomorrow, go out to face them, for Yahweh is with you.’”

Lay a hand on him.
You will remember the battle
and never repeat it!

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

The Lord’s blessing enriches,
and struggle adds nothing to it.

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials

For the person who has entered His rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from His.

and he said, “Listen carefully, all Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat. This is what the Lord says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast number, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

For the Lord your God is the One who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.’

Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;
stop giving your attention to it.

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

In fact, we labor and strive for this, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, especially of those who believe.

When a man dies, will he come back to life?
If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle
until my relief comes.

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is still young.

And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

They have an easy time until they die,
and their bodies are well fed.

The Philistines again waged war against Israel. David went down with his soldiers, and they fought the Philistines, but David became exhausted.

The Ephraimite archers turned back
on the day of battle.

For they are spirits of demons performing signs, who travel to the kings of the whole world to assemble them for the battle of the great day of God, the Almighty.

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth?
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?

And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,

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

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

Call on Me in a day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

The struggles of fools weary them,
for they don’t know how to go to the city.