Hardships

Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,

…strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.