Quotes about Struggle
So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.
— 2 Corinthians 5:4
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
— 2 Corinthians 6:5
For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
— 2 Corinthians 10:3
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
— 2 Corinthians 11:25
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
— 2 Corinthians 11:27
Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
— 2 Corinthians 11:28
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
— 2 Corinthians 12:7
I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
— Galatians 4:11
At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
— Galatians 4:29
For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
— Galatians 5:17
and do not give the devil a foothold.
— Ephesians 4:27
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
— Ephesians 6:12