50 Bible Verses about struggle

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

For which I also labor, striving according to his working, who works in me mightily.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.

For that which I do I know not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight with afflictions;

Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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

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

For I desire that you know what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

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 which is in my members.

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

From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

You shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand you still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials:

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

And he said, Hearken you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat, Thus says the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

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, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

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

For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.

If a man dies, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change comes.

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

And unto Adam he said, Because you have listened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;

For there are no pains in their death: but their strength is firm.

Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David grew faint.

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

For they are the spirits of demons, working miracles, who go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no mischief follows: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows not how to go to the city.