51 Bible Verses about Struggles

I work hard and struggle to do this, using the energy that he powerfully provides in me.

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

For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.

But you must continue to remember those earlier days, how after you were enlightened you endured a hard and painful struggle.

You have the same struggle that you saw in me and now hear that I am still having.

Resist him and be firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

who comforts us in all our suffering, so that we may be able to comfort others in all their suffering, as we ourselves are being comforted by God.

He told them, "Keep on struggling to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you that many people will try to enter, but won't be able to do so.

This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

For there is no struggle at their deaths, and their bodies are healthy.

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

But when the infants kept on wrestling each other inside her womb, she asked herself, "Why is this happening?" So she asked the LORD for an explanation.

For even when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest. We suffered in a number of ways. Outwardly there were conflicts, inwardly there were fears.

The work of a fool so wears him out that he can't even find his way to town.

Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and by the love that the Spirit produces, to join me in my struggle, earnestly praying to God for me

truthful speech, and divine power; through the weapons of righteousness in the right and left hands;

"Your name won't be Jacob anymore," the man replied, "but Israel, because you exerted yourself against both God and men, and you've emerged victorious."

The blessing of the LORD establishes wealth, and difficulty does not accompany it.

Not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.

You greatly rejoice in this, even though you have to suffer various kinds of trials for a little while,

For I want you to know how much I struggle for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen me face to face.

For you have been given the privilege for the Messiah's sake not only to believe in him but also to suffer for him.

For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.

Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again!

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of the Messiah Jesus, sends you his greetings. He is always wrestling in his prayers for you, so that you may stand mature, completely convinced of the entire will of God.

Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.

Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.

For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.

But if you do get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin gets married, she has not sinned. However, these people will experience trouble in this life, and I want to spare you from that.

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

Call on me in the day of distress; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death?

because the one who enters God's rest has himself rested from his own actions, just as God did from his.

He even fought the angel and won; he cried and prayed to him. Then at Bethel he found him, and there he spoke with us

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

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you by the Messiah Jesus to his eternal glory, will restore you, establish you, strengthen you, and support you.

To this end we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, that is, of those who believe.

For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?

If you grow weary when times are troubled, your strength is limited.

"If two men are fighting together, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the grasp of his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes his genitals,

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it yet. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

So I find this to be a principle: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.

Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.

I pleaded with the Lord three times to take it away from me,

And so Jacob was left alone, and he struggled with a man until daybreak.