Quotes about Struggle
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
- Genesis 30:8
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- Genesis 31:40
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
- Genesis 32:7
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
- Genesis 32:24
When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
- Genesis 32:25
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Genesis 32:26
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Genesis 32:28
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
- Genesis 32:31
Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
- Genesis 35:16
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.
- Genesis 37:24
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
- Genesis 39:14
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
- Genesis 39:20