38 Bible Verses about pressure

Besides the external things, crowding upon me daily is the care of all the congregations.

restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing,

But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Thy commandments are my delight.

How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Thou brought us into the net. Thou laid a great burden upon our loins.

But I wanted to do nothing without thy mind, so that thy goodness might not be as from obligation, but from volition.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.

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

to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.

For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, and the cravings about other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution develops because of the word, straightaway they are caused to stumble.

And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone.

And I besought LORD at that time, saying,

Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness. Thou have enlarged me in distress. Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

And the multitude comes together again, so as for them, no, not even to be able to eat bread.

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he shall have no lack of gain.

For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had not one relief, but being oppressed in everything: battles outside, fears within.

Out of my distress I called upon LORD. LORD answered me upon a large place.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

For the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood, so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.

For LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.

O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of LORD.

in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. And they were grieved because of the sons of Israel.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

A troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [is] a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Say to them, As I live, says lord LORD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.