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21 Bible Verses About Struggle

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  • Jesus told his disciples “In this world you will have trouble” and, in the same verse, “I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
  • Romans 7:15-25 and Galatians 5:17 describe a conflict inside a person, between what they want to do and what they do, and between flesh and Spirit.
  • Ephesians 6:12 uses pale, a wrestling match, for the struggle against spiritual forces of evil, and answers it with the armour of God.
  • Jacob was renamed Israel after wrestling through the night at the Jabbok, “because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome” (Genesis 32:28).
  • James 1:2-4, Romans 5:3-5 and Hebrews 12:11 each name what endurance produces: maturity, hope, and “a harvest of righteousness and peace”.

The Bible expects struggle and names it plainly. Jesus told his disciples, “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33), and Job calls human life “full of trouble” (Job 14:1). The struggles it describes include the conflict inside a person between what they want to do and what they do (Romans 7:15, 19; Galatians 5:17), a fight against spiritual powers (Ephesians 6:12), and Jacob’s night of wrestling at the Jabbok, after which he was renamed Israel (Genesis 32:28). Alongside…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 3823, πάλη (pale): struggle, wrestling, conflict. biblehub.com/greek/3823

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