29 Bible Verses about struggle

You have not yet resisted unto death, striving against sin.

this is what I earnestly strive to effect, by virtue of that power, which effectually operates in me.

and probation, hope:

for our conflict is not barely with men, but with principalities, with potentates, with the princes of darkness, with wicked aereal spirits.

what I do I allow not: for what my mind leads me to, that do I not; but what I have an aversion to, that I do.

Call to remembrance the former times, in which after ye were illuminated, you were forc'd to struggle with sufferings,

resist him by the steadiness of your faith, considering that your brethren among the Gentiles, suffer the same persecutions as you do.

strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for I declare unto you, that many shall try to get in, and shall not be able.

being engag'd in the same conflict, in which you saw I was formerly, and hear that I am at present engag'd.

For I wish you knew how great my concern is for you, and for those of Laodicea, and for such as have never seen me in person:

but I perceive in the animal part of me another law warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my animal part.

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

in the mean time, I conjure you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the spirit, that you join with me in earnest prayers to God for me;

who comforteth me in all my tribulations, that I may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith I myself am comforted of God.

for the vicious desires are contrary to those of the spirit, and the inclinations of the spirit are contrary to those of the animal part; these are opposite to each other, so that you do not the things that you would.

This it is that fills you with joy, notwithstanding the various tryals, which still necessarily afflict you,

then he that enters into divine rest, will indeed rest from his works, as God did from his.

for the good that I purpose to do, I do not: but the evil which I resolve against, that I do.

have cordially reliev'd me. Epaphras a servant of Christ, and your countryman, salutes you, who is always very earnest in his prayers, that you may be perfectly acquainted with, and constantly observe,

for I consider, that the sufferings of this present life are infinitely over-ballanc'd by that glory which shall hereafter be discovered to us.

for to that end we expose ourselves to trouble and reproach, because we hope in the living God, who is the saviour of all men, especially of believers.

and not only so, but we triumph in tribulation also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, probation;

for they are the spirits of demons working miracles, which make a progress to the kings of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God almighty.

O wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death?

I don't imagine, my brethren, that I am arriv'd at the goal; but this I do, unmindful of what is pass'd, I stretch towards that which is in view,

I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith: