The word in Scripture

Trouble in the Bible

The word trouble appears 110 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Trouble is distress and difficulty; God is our present help. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What trouble means in the Bible

Trouble is distress and difficulty; God is our present help.

Where the word trouble appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word trouble appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”Psalms 46:1

“He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.”Psalms 91:15

“Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.”Proverbs 25:19

“Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.”Isaiah 1:14

“And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.”Isaiah 8:22

“When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.”Matthew 26:10

“Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.”Galatians 1:7

“From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”Galatians 6:17