Bible Verses About Struggle with God

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

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

And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

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

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

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

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

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

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

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

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.