'Hard' in the Bible

Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go. You know how hard I have worked for you.”

You know that I’ve worked hard for your father

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night.”

Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing sheep and cattle. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages.”

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.

They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.

But the Egyptians mistreated and afflicted us, and forced us to do hard labor.

Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

can you help God spread out the skiesas hard as a cast metal mirror?

when water becomes as hard as stone,and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

Can you depend on it because its strength is great?Would you leave it to do your hard work?

His heart is as hard as a rock,as hard as a lower millstone!

He broke their spirits with hard labor;they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

You pushed me hard to make me fall,but the Lord helped me.

Their hearts are hard and insensitive,but I delight in Your instruction.

In vain you get up early and stay up late,working hard to have enough food—yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.

There is profit in all hard work,but endless talk leads only to poverty.

I observed all the work of God and concluded that man is unable to discover the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors hard to explore it, he cannot find it; even if the wise man claims to know it, he is unable to discover it.

When the Lord gives you rest from your pain, torment, and the hard labor you were forced to do,

Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they couldn’t because the sea was raging against them more and more.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heartsand turn back—and I would cure them.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “I assure you: It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.

Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”

But the disciples were astonished at His words. Again Jesus said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

“Master,” Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing! But at Your word, I’ll let down the nets.”

Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.

Seeing that he became sad, Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

For the hearts of these peoplehave grown callous,their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heart,and be converted,and I would heal them.

Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who have worked hard in the Lord.Greet my dear friend Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.

For I testify about him that he works hard for you, for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

The elders who are good leaders should be considered worthy of an ample honorarium, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.