51 Bible Verses about Struggles

For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope.

For that which I do, I know not. For what I desire, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do.

But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions,

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood.

He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,

For there are no bands in their death; but their strength is fat.

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

And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If it is so, why am I this way? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

For, indeed, coming into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but being troubled in every way, with fightings on the outside, and fears on the inside.

The labor of fools wearies him, because he does not know how to go to the city.

But I exhort you, brothers, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

in the Word of Truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for like a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed.

The blessing of Jehovah itself makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,

If a man die, shall he revive? All the days of my warfare I will wait, until my change comes.

in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;

For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

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

Lay your hand on him, think of the battle; you will never do it again.

Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you 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 He Himself has suffered, having been tempted, He is able to rescue those who are being tempted.

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

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another; lest whatever you may will, these things you do.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.

and call on Me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His.

Yes, he wept and cried to Him, and he had power over the Angel and overcame. He found him in Bethel, and there He spoke with us,

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, He will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

For to this we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the preserver of all men, especially of those who believe.

For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.

When men strive together with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand and takes him by the secret parts,

My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before,

I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with me.

For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

And Jacob was left alone. And a Man wrestled there with him until the breaking of the day.