37 Bible Verses about Struggles

to which end I also am laboring, striving earnestly through his working, which worketh within me mightily.

Not yet have ye resisted unto blood, in your contest against sin;

for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the worldrulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of evil in the heavenly regions.

and endurance proof [of faith], and proof [of faith giveth] hope;

For I know not what I do. For I do not what I would, but I do what I hate.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great struggle with sufferings;

as ye have the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are being accomplished in your brethren in the world.

who comforteth us in all our distress, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any distress by the comfort wherewith we are ourselves comforted by God;

Strive to enter in through the narrow door; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory;

For I esteem the sufferings of the present time as of no account, when compared with the glory which is about to be revealed to us.

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

But I beseech you, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love produced by the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers to God for me;

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

And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also, knowing that affliction produceth endurance,

wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a short time, if need be, made sorrowful by manifold trials,

For I would have you know what a great struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

for to you it was given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but in his behalf to suffer also;

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

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

For in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

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

For the flesh hath desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these oppose one another, that ye may not do the things that ye would.

But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?

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

knowing that the trying of your faith worketh endurance.

But the God of all grace, who called you to his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, will, after ye have suffered a while, himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have placed our hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of believers.

Brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth to the things that are before,

I find then that there is a law to me, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

but I am held in a strait by the two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; for it is far better;

In respect to this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me;