29 Bible Verses about struggle

for ye have not resisted unto blood in striving against sin.

in order to which I also labour, striving earnestly according to his energy which operates in me with power.

and patience experience,

For our conflict is not with flesh and blood only, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the world and of the darkness of this age, against wicked spirits in heavenly places.

For that which I do, I allow not: for I do not that which I would; but what I hate, this I do.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which after being enlightened, ye sustained a great conflict of sufferings;

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are endured by your brethren in the world.

But He said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate; for I tell you, many will desire to enter in, and shall not be able.

having the same conflict as ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

For I would have you know what a great conflict I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me in person:

but I perceive another law in my body warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my body.

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye earnestly strive together with me in prayers to God for me;

that we may be able to comfort those, that are in any trouble, by the consolation wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God.

for the flesh desireth things contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit things contrary to the flesh: and these are opposite to each other; so that ye do not those things which ye would.

In which ye rejoice, tho' now for a little while, if need be, ye are grieved through various trials.

for he that is entered into his rest, hath also himself ceased from his works, as God did from his.

For I do not the good that I would; but the evil which I would not, this I do.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you; who always strives earnestly for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God:

And I account the sufferings of this present time not worthy to be set against the glory that shall be revealed to us.

For to this end we both labour and suffer reproach, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

And not only so, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience,

for they are the spirits of demons, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God almighty.

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of death?

Brethren, I count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to those before,

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