37 Bible Verses about Struggles

For this end I labor, striving with all his energy, which so mightily works within me.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

I do not understand what I do. For I do not do what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

But remember the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren throughout the world.

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

"Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turnconflicts on the outside and fears within.

Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

in truthful speech, and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

And not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials,

For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh,

For to you it has been granted for the sake of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake,

For I do not do the good I want to do; but the evil I do not want to do is what I do.

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a servant of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

For because he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you would.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have troubles in this flesh, and I am trying to spare you.

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage! I have overcome the world."

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.

for you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better;

Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should depart from me.