What Does the Bible Say About Hard Life?

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

John 16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 4:29-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

1 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Joel 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Job 15:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

Deuteronomy 28:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,

Genesis 1:26-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

John 1:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

28 Bible Verses about Hard Life

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joel 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 15:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 28:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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28 Bible Verses about Hard Life

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Matthew 7:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joel 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 15:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 28:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote