Bible Verses about Suffering

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• After you have suffered for a brief period, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and support you.
  1 Peter 5:10graceeternal lifepromises
• And not only that, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we realize that suffering develops perseverance, and perseverance produces character, and character produces hope.
  Romans 5:3-4hopejoy
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercy and the God of all consolation. He consoles us in all our afflictions and thereby enables us to console others in their tribulations, offering them the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.
  2 Corinthians 1:3-4worshipencouragementcomforter
• I consider that the sufferings we presently endure are not worth comparing with the glory to be revealed in us.
  Romans 8:18eternal lifesalvation
• The misfortunes of the righteous man are many,
  but the Lord delivers him, from all of them.
  Psalm 34:20righteousnessredeemerfreedom
• Our temporary light afflictions are preparing for us an incomparable weight of eternal glory.
  2 Corinthians 4:17eternal lifeencouragementreward
• Who then can separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
  Romans 8:35lovepersecutionpoverty
• Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you should arm yourselves also with the same intention. For anyone who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin.
  1 Peter 4:1sin
• Yet even if you should suffer for doing what is right, you are thereby blessed. Have no fear of others, and refuse to be intimidated by them.
  1 Peter 3:14righteousnessfear
• For it has been granted you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him.
  Philippians 1:29gracefaithmercy
• Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
  Galatians 6:2lawneighbor
• He was despised and shunned by others,
  a man of sorrows who was no stranger to suffering.
  We loathed him and regarded him as of no account,
  as one from whom men avert their gaze.
  Isaiah 53:3Jesussickness
• And anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
  Matthew 10:38Jesusfollowingcrucifixion
• For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so too, through Christ, do we receive our consolation.
  2 Corinthians 1:5comforterJesusencouragement
• Although it was our afflictions that he bore,
  our sufferings that he endured,
  we thought of him as stricken,
  as struck down by God and afflicted.
  Isaiah 53:4Jesussicknesscrucifixion
• All I want is to come to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share in his sufferings by becoming conformed to his death.
  Philippians 3:10Jesusresurrection
• This, in fact, is what you have been called to do, because Christ himself suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his footsteps.
  1 Peter 2:21followingcallingobedience
• Then Job arose, tore his cloak, and shaved his head. He threw himself prostrate on the ground and said:
  “Naked I emerged from my mother’s womb,
  and naked I will return.
  The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;
  blessed be the name of the Lord.”
  Job 1:20-21worshipsadnessworrying
• Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
  Matthew 10:39eternal lifelife
• He brought you low, allowing you to suffer from hunger. He then fed you with manna, something with which your fathers were not familiar, so that you might come to know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.
  Deuteronomy 8:3Word of Godlifefood
• They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they placed it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. Then, bending the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
  Matthew 27:28-29sacrificeeaster
• If I give away everything to feed the poor
  and hand over my body to be burned,
  but do not have love,
  I achieve nothing.
  1 Corinthians 13:3lovegivingpride
• In the netherworld, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham, far off, and Lazarus by his side. And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.’
  Luke 16:23-24helldeathheaven
• Blessed is the man whom God reproves.
  Therefore, do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.
  Job 5:17punishmentblessing
• But I have had help from God to this very day, and I stand here and testify to both the lowly and the great. I assert nothing more than what the Prophets and Moses said would occur: that the Christ must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light to the people and to the Gentiles.
  Acts 26:22-23evangelismresurrectionSavior