38 Bible Verses about pressure

And beside the things which outwardly happen unto me, I am cumbered daily and do care for all congregations.

We are troubled on every side, yet are we not without shift. We are in poverty: but not utterly without somewhat.

Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again -

The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast: for they are minded to do me some mischief, so maliciously are they set against me.

Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.

'How,' said I, 'can I myself alone bear the cumbrance, charge, and strife that is among you?

Thou hast brought us into captivity, and laid trouble upon our loins.

Nevertheless, without thy mind, would I do nothing, that that good which springeth of thee should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

Brethren, I would not have you ignorant of our trouble, which happened unto us in Asia. For we were grieved out of measure passing strength, so greatly that we despaired even of life.

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

When he weighed the winds, and measured the waters;

For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not to make you sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have most specially unto you.

and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things enter in, and choke the word, and it is made unfruitful.

yet have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: and anon, as soon as any trouble and persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they fall.

And I said unto you the same season, 'I am not able to bear you myself alone.

And I besought the LORD the same time, saying,

And let every man do according as he hath purposed in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity. For God loveth a cheerful giver.

{To the Chanter in Neginoth, a Psalm of David} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! Thou hast set me at liberty when I was in trouble; have mercy upon me, and hearken unto my prayer.

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

And they came unto house, and the people assembled together again, so greatly that they had not leisure so much as to eat bread.

The heart of her husband may safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoils.

For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: Outward was fighting, inward was fear.

I called upon the LORD in trouble, and the LORD heard me at large.

He that hath pleasure in banquets, shall be a poor man; Whoso delighteth in wine and delicates, shall not be rich.

And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"

Who so churneth milk, maketh butter; he that rubbeth his nose, maketh it bleed; and he that causeth wrath, bringeth forth strife.

For the LORD chastised me, and took me by the hand, and warned me, saying unto me that I should not walk in the ways of this people. He said moreover,

Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle.

O thou earth, earth, earth: hear the word of the LORD!

in labour and travail, in watching often, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: so that they abhorred the children of Israel.

But and if thou take a wife, thou sinnest not. Likewise if a virgin marry, she sinneth not. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in their flesh: but I saver you.

A righteous man falling down before the ungodly, is like a troubled well and a spring that is destroyed.

A good stomach driveth away a man's disease; but when the spirit is vexed, who may abide it?

Whoso doeth wrong, maketh a wise man to go out of his wit, and destroyeth a gentle heart.

Tell them, 'As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but much rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn you, turn you from your ungodly ways, O ye of the house of Israel. Oh, wherefore will ye die?'

When they are minished and brought low through oppression, through any plague or trouble,