Bible Verses About Challenges

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

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.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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.

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.