37 Bible Verses about Struggles

That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.

You have not yet resisted unto death in your struggle with sin,

For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.

and endurance, character, and character, hope,

I do not understand what I am doing, for I do not do what I want to do; I do things that I hate.

But you must remember those early days when after you had received the light you had to go through a great struggle with persecution,

Take your part in the same struggle that you have seen me engage in and that you hear I am still keeping up.

Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.

He comforts me in all my trouble, so that I can comfort people who are in any trouble with the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

"You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,

For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison,

For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us.

For even when I reached Macedonia, my poor human nature could get no relief??here was trouble at every turn; fighting without, and fear within.

I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.

the truth of my teaching, and the power of God; with the weapons of uprightness for the right hand and the left,

More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,

Rejoice over this, although just now perhaps distressed by various trials;

For I want you to know what a fight I am putting up for you and for our brothers in Laodicea, and for all who do not know me personally,

For you have been granted the privilege not only of trusting in Christ but of suffering for him.

I do not do the good things that I want to do; I do the wrong 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 standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

For because he has himself been tempted in what he has suffered he is able to help others who are in trial.

but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.

For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please.

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

What a wretched man I am! Who can save me from this doomed body?

For all who are admitted to God's Rest rest after their work, just as God did after his.

for you know that the testing of your faith leads to steadfastness,

And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

It is for this that we toil and struggle, for we have fixed our hopes on the living God, the Savior of all men, especially those who believe.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead,

I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong.

I am undecided between the two, for I long to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

Three times I have prayed to the Lord about this, begging that it might leave me,