51 Bible Verses about Struggles

Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.

and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.

Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which is in the world.

who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

For our momentary and light affliction works for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory;

For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed to us.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.

The labour of fools wearieth them, because they know not how to go to the city.

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

in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,

And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow to it.

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

(If a man die, shall he live again?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:

Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,

For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

Lay thy hand upon him; remember the battle, do no more!

Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.

but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.

Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground:

for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?

If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.

When men fight together one with another, and the wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and stretch out her hand, and seize him by his secret parts,

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, for it is very much better,

For this I thrice besought the Lord that it might depart from me.

And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.