29 Bible Verses about struggle

You have not yet, as you have struggled on against sin, resisted to the point of pouring out your blood,

For this I am toiling and struggling by His active energy which is mightily working in me.

and endurance, tested character, and tested character, hope,

For our contest is not with human foes alone, but with the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark world; that is, with the spirit-forces of evil challenging us in the heavenly contest.

Indeed, I do not understand what I do, for I do not practice what I want to do, but I am always doing what I hate.

But you must continue to remember those earlier days when first you received the light and then endured so great a struggle with persecution,

Resist him and be strong in faith, because you know that your brotherhood all over the world is experiencing the same sort of sufferings.

"You must struggle on to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you, many will try to get in, but will not succeed,

since you are having the same struggle that you once saw me have and which you hear that I am still having.

I want you to know what a battle I am fighting for you and for those in Laodicea, yes, for all who have never known me personally,

but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature.

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

Now I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, to wrestle with me in prayers to God on my behalf,

who comforts me in every sorrow I have, so that I can comfort people who are in sorrow with the comfort with which I am comforted by God.

For the cravings of the lower nature are just the opposite to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are just the opposite of those of the lower nature; these two are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do anything you please.

In such a hope keep on rejoicing, although for a little while you must be sorrow-stricken with various trials,

For whoever is admitted into God's rest himself has rested from his works, just as God did.

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

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always earnestly pleading for you in his prayers that you may stand fast as men mature and of firm convictions in everything required by the will of God.

For I consider all that we suffer in this present life is nothing to be compared with the glory which by-and-by is to be uncovered for us.

To this end we are toiling and struggling, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers.

And not only that, but this too: let us continue exulting in our sufferings, for we know that suffering produces endurance,

They are the spirits of demons that perform wonders, and they go forth to the kings of the whole world, to muster them for battle on the great day of the Almighty God.

Wretched man that I am! Who can save me from this deadly lower nature?

Brothers, I do not think that I have captured it yet, but here is my one aspiration, so forgetting what is behind me and reaching out for what is ahead of me,

I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept faith.