26 Bible Verses about faith in hard times

for you surely know that what is genuine in your faith produces the patient mind that endures;

and endurance, tested character, and tested character, hope,

Now you must know that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead.

for we can never for a moment before our God forget your energizing faith, your toiling love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then many will fall by the way, and will betray one another and hate one another.

It will furnish you an opportunity to testify.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of uprightness than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command committed to their trust.

I tell you, He will give them justice and protection, and that without delay. But when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?"

Therefore, I will always remind you of these things, although you know them and are firmly grounded in the truth that you already have.

Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."

Be always on your guard; stand firm in your faith; keep on acting like men; continue to grow in strength;

Then Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God!

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

To this end we are toiling and struggling, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers.

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith.

and the prayer that is offered in faith will save the sick man; the Lord will raise him to health, and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

Do this in particular because you know the present crisis, that it is high time for you to wake up out of your sleep, for our salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Keep on praying in the Spirit, with every kind of prayer and entreaty, at every opportunity, be ever on the alert with perfect devotion and entreaty for all God's people,

take the helmet salvation provides, and take the sword the Spirit wields, which is the word of God.

Keep up the good fight for the faith. Keep your hold on eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the good profession of faith.

strengthening the hearts of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, and warning them that it is through enduring many hardships that we must get into the kingdom of God.

let us, without ever wavering, keep on holding to the hope that we profess, for He is to be trusted who has made the promise,

Indeed, to carry out the will of God and to receive the blessing He has promised, you need endurance, for: