100 Bible Verses About Trials

Bible verses about Trials

Trials, though challenging, are not meant to break us, but to refine us. Scripture offers solace and strength, illuminating God's purpose in our suffering. Understanding trials through a biblical lens shifts our perspective from despair to hope, revealing opportunities for growth, perseverance, and deeper faith. These verses remind us that we are not alone in our struggles; God is with us, using these experiences to mold us into the image of Christ. Embrace the wisdom within these passages, allowing them to guide you through the storms of life and emerge stronger, more resilient, and closer to Him.

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Ecclesiastes 2:14 (KJV)

The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

Trials: Bible Verses for Strength & Perseverance

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

Job 40:18KJV

And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

Deuteronomy 28:26KJV

Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal–gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.

Joshua 11:17KJV

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

Genesis 35:17KJV

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Genesis 43:14KJV

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Job 32:3KJV

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Psalms 81:6KJV

To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psalms 136:13KJV

But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

Psalms 37:39KJV

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Isaiah 32:2KJV

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.

Psalms 112:7KJV

That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:10KJV

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:15KJV

Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

Numbers 25:17KJV

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 1:1KJV

Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

Numbers 35:23KJV

The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

Deuteronomy 28:28KJV

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

2 Samuel 3:35KJV

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Proverbs 25:26KJV

Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

Psalms 105:18KJV

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.

Psalms 37:17KJV

That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 22:33KJV

And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.

Judges 9:36KJV

The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:14KJV

And they journeyed from Beth–el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

Genesis 35:16KJV

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Job 30:26KJV

And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

Joshua 9:5KJV

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Psalms 32:6KJV

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Deuteronomy 8:2KJV

Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

Jeremiah 4:12KJV

An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

Proverbs 19:28KJV

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Psalms 37:12KJV

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Psalms 88:6KJV

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Psalms 44:14KJV

And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

Numbers 21:11KJV

Thou shalt not kill.

Deuteronomy 5:17KJV

And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

Isaiah 39:7KJV

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Job 13:19KJV

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

Psalms 118:13KJV

Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

Psalms 148:8KJV

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

Psalms 119:92KJV

And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psalms 136:14KJV

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

Exodus 17:3KJV

And David came to Baal–perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal–perazim.

2 Samuel 5:20KJV

Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

1 Kings 8:32KJV

Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26:24KJV

It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

Ecclesiastes 7:18KJV

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

Isaiah 6:11KJV

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Job 37:23KJV

The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 19:12KJV

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Deuteronomy 28:17KJV

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

Psalms 18:15KJV

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalms 22:16KJV

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

Genesis 41:30KJV

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

Job 13:26KJV

And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

Genesis 42:3KJV

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

Psalms 73:14KJV

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

Song of Solomon 2:11KJV

But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

Exodus 21:14KJV

And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

Genesis 32:31KJV

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

Psalms 74:4KJV

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Psalms 119:71KJV

And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.

Exodus 8:10KJV

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40:31KJV

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

Deuteronomy 28:16KJV

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Psalms 124:4KJV

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 3:5KJV

And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

1 Kings 17:7KJV

Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:20KJV

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

Proverbs 18:17KJV

And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

Deuteronomy 28:23KJV

Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Deuteronomy 33:25KJV

And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

1 Samuel 17:23KJV

The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

Deuteronomy 29:3KJV

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Isaiah 59:7KJV

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.

1 Samuel 18:29KJV

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

Isaiah 65:20KJV

As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Proverbs 10:25KJV

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 9:13KJV

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

Ecclesiastes 8:6KJV

A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

Proverbs 14:25KJV

Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Exodus 21:25KJV

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

Psalms 106:22KJV

O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

Psalms 71:12KJV

Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

Numbers 11:22KJV

And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

Numbers 21:4KJV

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 21:12KJV

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Joshua 20:4KJV

The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

1 Kings 2:44KJV

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

1 Samuel 12:3KJV

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

Isaiah 25:2KJV

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

Psalms 147:17KJV

And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

1 Samuel 21:12KJV

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Ecclesiastes 3:10KJV

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Numbers 14:1KJV

Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

1 Kings 14:10KJV

And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

1 Kings 11:39KJV

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Deuteronomy 32:41KJV

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Job 39:6KJV

And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)

Joshua 3:15KJV

The Bible offers a wealth of wisdom and comfort for navigating life's trials. These verses demonstrate that suffering is not unique, nor is it without purpose. From James' call to count trials as joy, recognizing their role in developing perseverance, to Peter's assurance that fiery trials refine faith like gold, the message resonates: trials are opportunities for spiritual growth. Verses highlighting God's unwavering presence and promise of deliverance, as seen in Psalms and Isaiah, remind us that we are never alone in our struggles. Ultimately, these scriptures encourage us to shift our perspective, viewing trials not as insurmountable obstacles but as stepping stones toward a deeper relationship with God and a more resilient faith. Reflect on these verses, pray for strength and wisdom, and trust that even in the midst of hardship, God is working for your good and His glory.