30 Bible Verses about Hardship

be you then entirely upon the watch: be insensible to toil: perform the work of an evangelist, and discharge your ministerial function.

what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword?

for which I suffer even the chains of a malefactor: but the word of God is not so confin'd.

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of that insupportable weight of affliction that over-whelm'd me so in Asia that I despaired even of life:

these things I have appriz'd you of, that ye might repose your confidence in me. the world shall give you trouble: but take courage, I have overcome the world.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. is his mind serene? let him sing psalms.

bravely endure hardships, like a soldier of Jesus Christ.

I take pleasure then in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am afflicted, then it is I have fortitude.

expos'd to toil, to fatigue, to frequent watchings, to hunger and thirst, to frequent fastings, to cold and penury.

and probation, hope:

from imprisonments, from tumults, from labours, from watchings, from penury.

thou hast suffer'd, hast patience, for my name's sake thou hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

but even to the morose. for it is a recommendation to the divine favour, to suffer unjust persecution

encouraging the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith, representing that it is thro' much tribulation that we must enter into the kingdom of God.

if you are to endure chastisement, God treats you as his children: for where's the son whom his father does not chastise?

This it is that fills you with joy, notwithstanding the various tryals, which still necessarily afflict you,

for you remember, my brethren, our labour and toil: how we worked day and night, that in preaching the gospel of God, we might not be chargeable to any of you.

and tho' I distribute my whole substance to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not social affection, it profits me nothing.

not that it is a sin for you to marry; nor is it so if a virgin marry; but they that do, will be troubled for their relations, and that I would prevent.

save what the holy spirit in every city declares, "that bonds and afflictions wait for me."

but in all things I approve myself as the minister of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in torments, in distresses, from stripes,

for I consider, that the sufferings of this present life are infinitely over-ballanc'd by that glory which shall hereafter be discovered to us.

my meaning is not, that you should be distress'd to relieve others, I only recommend an equality;

happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

resist him by the steadiness of your faith, considering that your brethren among the Gentiles, suffer the same persecutions as you do.

that the bringing your faith to the test, produces constancy.

that we did not eat any man's bread for nothing: but with toil and fatigue work'd night and day to avoid being chargeable to any of you: