50 Bible Verses about Staying Strong During Hard Times

If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.

Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are of heavy hearts.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity take note that God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

In the day when I cried You answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul.

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching to this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

Then we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah. A Song "For the Virgins". God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Know therefore and understand, that from the going out of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction.

He is the Rock; His work is perfect. For all His ways are just, a God of faithfulness, and without evil; just and upright is He.

So the understanding ones shall keep silent in that time; for it is an evil time.

rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.

Know this also, that in the last days grievous times will be at hand.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.

Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.

And it shall return to you for a testimony.

for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.

holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

that You may give him rest from the days of trouble, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy! For the sons have come to the birth, and no strength to bring forth.

and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope.

For the Lord Jehovah will help Me; therefore I have not been ashamed. On account of this I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires.

And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly. And His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

(But their thoughts were blinded; for until the present the same veil remains on the reading of the old covenant, not taken away.) But this veil has been done away in Christ.

But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.

I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.

And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised),

confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;

And in the morning, Foul weather today; for the sky is red and gloomy. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky, but you cannot see the signs of the times!

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Pray without ceasing.

Then I praised gladness, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be glad; for that shall go with him of his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the strangers.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father,