28 Bible Verses about struggle

Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;

For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

For what I perform I know not; what I practise is not what I intend to do, but what I detest, that I habitually do.

But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.

"Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships.

For the good that I intend to do, I do not; but the evil which I do not; but the evil which I do not intend to do, that I am ever practising.

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us.

"We toil and agonize because our hopes are set on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all men,??f believers in particular.

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

For these are the spirits of demons performing miracles, who go forth to the kings of the habitable earth, to gather them together for the battle of the great Day of God, the Almighty.

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,

I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith.