50 Bible Verses about struggle

Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

For which I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to-morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

Lay thy hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

And the children struggled together within her: and she said, If it is so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

For he that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.)

And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD to you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.

For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.

If a man dieth, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change shall come.

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

Moreover, the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David became faint.

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

For they are the spirits of demons, working miracles, which go forth to the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are before,

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

If men shall contend, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit shall depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.