50 Bible Verses about struggle

You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.

for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].

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

But remember the former days in which, [after you] were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

{Resist him}, steadfast in your faith, [because you] know the same [kinds] of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world.

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,

having the same struggle which you saw in me and now hear about in me.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and all those who have not seen my face {in person},

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to contend along with me in your prayers on my behalf to God,

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

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

[There will be] no [need] for you to fight in this [battle]. Take your stand! Stand and see the deliverance of Yahweh among you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out before them and Yahweh [will be] with you.'"

Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!

And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, "{If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant}?" And she went to inquire of Yahweh.

The blessing of Yahweh makes [one] rich, and he does not increase sorrow with it.

in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,

For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God [did] from his own [works].

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

For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

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

for Yahweh your God [is] going with you to fight for you against your enemies to help you.'

Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.

Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.

And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree {from which I forbade you to eat}, the ground [shall be] cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat [from] it all the days of your life.

[It is] good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood.

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies [are] {healthy}.

There [was] war again for [the] Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought [the] Philistines, and David grew weary.

The sons of Ephraim, {armed with archers}, turned back on [the] day of battle.

For they are the spirits of demons performing signs that go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world, to gather them for the battle of the great day of God the All-Powerful.

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].

Wretched man [that] I [am]! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he [is] also flesh. And his days [shall be] one hundred and twenty years."

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,

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

" 'And if men fight and they injure a pregnant woman, and her children go out and there is not serious injury, he will surely be fined as the woman's husband demands concerning him {and as the judges determine}.

And call me in [the] day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.