Bible verses about "hardships" | Twentieth_Century

⁴ Who consoles us in all our troubles, so that we may be able to console those who are in any trouble with the consolation that we ourselves receive from him.

²² Reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the Faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the Kingdom of God.

³⁵ Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?

¹² If we continue to endure, we shall also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us.

⁴ No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God's ministers should--in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties, ⁵ In floggings, in imprisonments, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings; ⁶ By purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindliness, by holiness of spirit, by unfeigned love; ⁷ By the Message of Truth, and by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; ⁸ Amid honor and disrepute, amid slander and praise; regarded as deceivers, yet proved to be true;

³ You possess endurance, and have borne much for my Name, and have never grown weary.

²⁸ Come to me, all you who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest!

⁹ But his reply has been-- 'My help is enough for you; for my strength attains its perfection in the midst of weakness.' Most gladly, then, will I boast all the more of my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Christ may overshadow me. ¹⁰ That is why I delight in weakness, ill-treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong!

² My Brothers, whatever may be the temptations that beset you from time to time, always regard them as a reason for rejoicing, ³ Knowing, as you do, that the testing of your faith develops endurance. ⁴ And let endurance do its work perfectly, so that you may be altogether perfect, and in no respect deficient.

¹⁰ Because you kept in mind the story of my endurance, I will keep you in the hour of trial that is about to come upon the whole world, the hour that will test all who are living upon earth.

³⁵ Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? ³⁶ Scripture says-'For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.' ³⁷ Yet amidst all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us! ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither Death, nor Life, nor Angels, nor Archangels, nor the Present, nor the Future, nor any Powers, ³⁹ Nor Height, nor Depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!

¹³ I can do everything in the strength of him who makes me strong!

³ And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles; ⁴ For we know that trouble develops endurance, and endurance strength of character, and strength of character hope, ⁵ And that 'hope never disappoints.' For the love of God has filled our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given us;

¹² Blessed is the man who remains firm under temptation, for, when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of Life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him.