37 Bible Verses about Struggles

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest.

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

by waging the same conflict that, as once you saw and now you hear, I wage myself.

Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

For I got no relief from the strain of things, even when I reached Macedonia; it was trouble at every turn, wrangling all round me, fears in my own mind.

Brothers, I beg of you, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, rally round me by praying to God for me;

true words, the power of God; with the weapons of integrity for attack or for defence,

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

Striving? Yes, I want you to understand my deep concern for you and for those at Laodicea, for all who have never seen my face.

For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

(for once a man enters his rest, he rests from work just as God did).

sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance;

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" ??of believers in particular.

Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,

So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage;

I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.

three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me,