28 Bible Verses about struggle

You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest.

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

by waging the same conflict that, as once you saw and now you hear, I wage myself.

Striving? Yes, I want you to understand my deep concern for you and for those at Laodicea, for all who have never seen my face.

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

Brothers, I beg of you, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, rally round me by praying to God for me;

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

(for once a man enters his rest, he rests from work just as God did).

I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" ??of believers in particular.

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,

I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.