Is “God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers” in the Bible?

But he has said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for power is made complete in weakness.” So I will be all the more glad to boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may settle on me. Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hard times, in persecutions and distress, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 · open the chapter →

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. We were so utterly weighed down, beyond our strength, that we despaired even of life. Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death. This happened so that we would not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
2 Corinthians 1:8-9 · open the chapter →