'Hard' in the Bible

For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.

For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.

Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.

They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them

But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:

And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.

For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.

And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard?

Then again he put his hands on his eyes; and looking hard, he was able to see, and saw all things clearly.

But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.

And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!

And the disciples were full of wonder at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is for those who put faith in wealth to come into the kingdom of God!

And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.

And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!

Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.

He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said,

And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.

Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you.

And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;

And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe:

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;

In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?

And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;