Here are 37 Bible verses about overcoming adversity from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
Psalms 60:11 KJV
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Psalms 119:143 KJV
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Galatians 6:1 KJV
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms 18:29 KJV
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Ephesians 6:18 KJV
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
James 1:12 KJV
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Psalms 84:6 KJV
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Psalms 35:19 KJV
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
Genesis 14:14 KJV
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Philippians 1:28 KJV
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
John 16:33 KJV
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Isaiah 59:19 KJV
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Matthew 18:7 KJV
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Obadiah 1:9 KJV
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Ephesians 6:13 KJV
And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
Nehemiah 4:9 KJV
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Job 5:22 KJV
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Zechariah 6:3 KJV
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 2:10 KJV
And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
1 Peter 5:9 KJV
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
1 Peter 1:6 KJV
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
James 1:3 KJV
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Psalms 22:7 KJV
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Job 15:24 KJV
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head saying,
Nehemiah 4:14 KJV
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Proverbs 24:10 KJV
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
Numbers 22:8 KJV
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
Revelation 12:11 KJV
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
James 4:14 KJV
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Job 4:13 KJV
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Acts 14:22 KJV
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Genesis 25:23 KJV
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Psalms 13:3 KJV
And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Proverbs 1:27 KJV
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Hebrews 12:7 KJV
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Luke 16:25 KJV
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
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