Bible Verses about “hardship”
The Bible contains 19 verses about hardship across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.”
“The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
“[The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”
“Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”
“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,”
“Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›”
“¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›”
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”
“As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”
“‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›”
“But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.”
“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”