35 Bible Verses For Challenging Times

Life is full of twists and turns and sometimes we fall upon hard times. No matter what the circumstance we can rest in the fact that God is always faithful. He will hold us in the hollow of His hand and when we ask, He will help us through the hard times.

And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth. | Revelation 11:3

And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth. | Revelation 6:8

And the way of peace they have not known. | Romans 3:17

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. | Matthew 24:14

All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. | Matthew 24:8

And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. | Joel 2:30

And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days. | Daniel 12:11

At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through. | Daniel 11:40

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever. | Daniel 2:44

Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it. | Jeremiah 30:7

Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury! | Isaiah 10:5

But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. | Luke 21:20

But test everything; hold fast what is good. | 1 Thessalonians 5:21

But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man. | Luke 21:36

Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. | Mark 13:33

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. | Matthew 7:13

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions. | 2 Timothy 4:3

For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. | Matthew 7:14
For these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. | Luke 21:22

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. | Matthew 24:21

From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid. | Ezra 3:6

God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. | Genesis 17:19

He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Cushites shall follow in his train. | Daniel 11:43

He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. | Daniel 12:9

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet. | Revelation 1:10

Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. | Matthew 24:29

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it. | Micah 4:1

In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. | Isaiah 19:23

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob. | Genesis 27:41

Saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” | Exodus 17:16

So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac. | Genesis 21:10

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. | Isaiah 2:1

The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. | Genesis 10:6

The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. | Genesis 48:16

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. | Isaiah 8:20

If you are struggling today, or you know someone who is in hard times, I hope that above give 35 Scriptures will be a blessing.