Bible Verses about 'Hard'
| I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? | Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me? |
| Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. | Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. |
| All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. | In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. |
| When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place. | Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. |
| I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. | I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. |
| That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. | For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. |
| Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? | Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? |
| Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor. | The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor. |
| Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. | Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. |
| I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. | With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! |
| Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow. | Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it. |
| If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. | If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. |
| Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. | Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. |
| Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. | Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. |
| When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future. | In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him. |
| God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. | For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. |
| Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. | Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. |
| Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. | Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. |
| Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. | Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. |
| Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. | For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. |
Bible verse of the day
A fool spurns a parent’s discipline,but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.