100 Bible Verses About Resilience

Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.

And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.

And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.

Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.

But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

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

And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.

And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth–el: and the Lord was with them.

And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth–rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.

Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.

And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.

For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.