51 Bible Verses about Struggles
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For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.
Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood 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 this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.
For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn--fighting without and fear within.
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,
For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that 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, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."
and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us--
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, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?
"When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. 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 right, evil lies close at hand.
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 leave me.
And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
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1 Corinthians 7:9But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
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