Hard

Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”

But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

…and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

…when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.

On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.

Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”

Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.

We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.

And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.