28 Bible Verses about Hardship

Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

for which I have to suffer imprisonment as if I were a criminal. (But there is no prison for the word of God.)

Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life;

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

Is anyone of you in trouble? let him pray. Is anyone thriving? let him sing praise.

Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.

It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving;

I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father?

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me.

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

This does not mean that other people are to be relieved and you to suffer:

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.

sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance;

we did not take free meals from anyone; no, toiling hard at our trade, we worked night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you.