22 Bible Verses about Stress And Hard Times

Be sure of this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

Though hard pressed on every side, we are never hemmed in; through perplexed, never driven to despair;

There will be signs, too, in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth despair among the nations, in their dismay at the roar of the sea and the surge.

Men's hearts will fail them through dread of what is coming upon the world; for 'the forces of the heavens will be convulsed.'

If any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.

May the Lord, from whom all peace comes, himself give you his peace at all times and in all ways. May he be with you all.

Do not then ask anxiously 'What can we get to eat?' or 'What can we get to drink?' or 'What can we get to wear?'

And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles;

And why be anxious about clothing? Study the wild lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin;

For if those who were once for all brought into the Light, and learned to appreciate the gift from Heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit,

I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best-that a man should remain as he is.

Therefore, I say, let those who suffer, because God wills it so, commit their lives into the hands of a faithful Creator, and persevere in doing right.

But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master: "Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded any one of anything, I will give him back four times as much."

And Jesus went all through Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people;

When, for instance, you are going with your opponent before a magistrate, on your way to the court do your best to be quit of him; for fear that he should drag you before the judge, when the judge will hand you over to the bailiff of the court, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep. "What!" he said to Peter, "could none of you watch with me for one hour?

They all united in devoting themselves to Prayer, and so did some women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

But when God, who had set me apart even before my birth, and who called me by his love,

"How can a man," asked Nicodemus, "be born when he is old? Can he be born a second time?"

So those who are last will be first, and the first last."

Let every one obey the supreme Authorities. For no Authority exists except by the will of God, and the existing Authorities have been appointed by God.

That you may become Sons of your Father who is in Heaven; for he causes his sun to rise upon bad and good alike, and sends rain upon the righteous and upon the unrighteous.