25 Bible Verses about Overcoming Hard Times

Take notice that in the latter days difficult incidents will arise;

be joyful in hope; be patient under affliction; persevere in prayer;

what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword?

these things I have appriz'd you of, that ye might repose your confidence in me. the world shall give you trouble: but take courage, I have overcome the world.

for he that is a true christian, overcomes the world: by obtaining faith, we have gain'd a victory over the world.

then shall many relapse, and shall pursue one another with mutual treachery and hatred.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. is his mind serene? let him sing psalms.

that the bringing your faith to the test, produces constancy.

for it had been better for them, not to have made any profession of the gospel, than after they have embraced it, to abandon the holy injunction, that was delivered to them.

for this reason I shall never omit to put you in mind of these things, however knowing you are already, and settled in the truth.

Finally, my brethren, place your strength in the transcendent power of the Lord.

unhappy will they be that are with child, and they that give suck in those days.

because you have kept my precept about patience, I also will keep you in the time of persecution, which shall happen to all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

for the desolation will be so dreadful, the like was never seen since the beginning of the world, no, nor ever shall be again.

but he that shall persevere unto the end, shall be preserved.

This it is that fills you with joy, notwithstanding the various tryals, which still necessarily afflict you,

for it is not properly you that speak, but the spirit of your father that speaketh by you.

Pour out your souls unto God upon all occasions, watching in prayer with all perseverance and supplication for all christians:

but in all things I approve myself as the minister of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in torments, in distresses, from stripes,

You have not yet resisted unto death, striving against sin.

encouraging the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith, representing that it is thro' much tribulation that we must enter into the kingdom of God.

so Paul went down, and stooping over him, he embraced him, and said, don't trouble your selves; for his life is in him.

happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

since it is agreeable to his justice to afflict those in their turn, who afflict you:

Consider the various tryals that surround you, my brethren, as matter of great joy; knowing this,