37 Bible Verses about Struggles

for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.

As yet ye have not resisted unto blood, struggling against sin.

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

and patience, proof; and proof, hope;

For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do.

But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

experiencing the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear to be in me.

against whom stand fast, firm in the faith, knowing that the very same sufferings are fully endured by the brotherhood which is in the world.

who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we might be able to comfort those who are in all tribulation, by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.

For our momentary light affliction worketh for us a transcendently far more exceeding eternal weight of glory;

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present moment are not worthy to be placed against the future glory that shall be revealed to us.

For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings; within were fears.

Now I exhort you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you wrestle earnestly with me in prayers for me unto God;

by the word of truth, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left,

And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience;

Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials:

FOR I wish you to know how great a struggle I sustain for you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

For this favour on the part of Christ is granted you, not only that ye should believe on him, but also that ye should suffer for his sake;

For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Epaphras, one of you, saluteth you, a servant of Christ, always wrestling for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

for inasmuch as he hath himself suffered, having been tempted, he is able to succour those who are tempted.

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

For the flesh hath appetites contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these act in opposition the one to the other: so that ye do not the things which ye would.

But if thou shouldst marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned; though such will have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

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

O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?

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

knowing that the proof of your faith produceth patience.

But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered a little while, himself perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

For therefore do we labour and are exposed to abuse, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before,

I find then a law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is presented to me.

For I am in a strait between the two, having an earnest longing to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for this is far, far better:

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