50 Bible Verses about struggle

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

You will not fight in this battle. Take your positions, stand, and watch the Lord deliver you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don't be afraid and don't panic! Tomorrow march out toward them; the Lord is with you!'"

If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again!

But the children struggled inside her, and she said, "If it is going to be like this, I'm not so sure I want to be pregnant!" So she asked the Lord,

The blessing from the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

For the one who enters God's rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

He said: "Pay attention, all you people of Judah, residents of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! This is what the Lord says to you: 'Don't be afraid and don't panic because of this huge army! For the battle is not yours, but God's.

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory."

Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed.

Another battle was fought between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his soldiers and fought the Philistines. David became exhausted.

The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they retreated in the day of battle.

For they are the spirits of the demons performing signs who go out to the kings of the earth to bring them together for the battle that will take place on the great day of God, the All-Powerful.

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

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

So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!

"If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman's husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.