Bible Verses about Suffering

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• And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.
  1 Peter 5:10graceeternal lifepromises
• And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.
  Romans 5:3-4hopejoy
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation, who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.
  2 Corinthians 1:3-4worshipencouragementcomforter
• I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.
  Romans 8:18eternal lifesalvation
• Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
  but the Lord rescues them from them all.
  Psalm 34:19righteousnessredeemerfreedom
• For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure.
  2 Corinthians 4:17eternal lifeencouragementreward
• Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  Romans 8:35lovepersecutionpoverty
• Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin).
  1 Peter 4:1sin
• But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated.
  1 Peter 3:14righteousnessfear
• For he has graciously granted you the privilege not only of believing in Christ, but of suffering for him as well.
  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 rejected by others;
  a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
  and as one from whom others hide their faces
  he was despised, and we held him of no account.
  Isaiah 53:3Jesussickness
• And whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
  Matthew 10:38Jesusfollowingcrucifixion
• For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.
  2 Corinthians 1:5comforterJesusencouragement
• Surely he has borne our infirmities
  and carried our diseases;
  yet we accounted him stricken,
  struck down by God, and afflicted.
  Isaiah 53:4Jesussicknesscrucifixion
• I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death.
  Philippians 3:10Jesusresurrection
• For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps.
  1 Peter 2:21followingcallingobedience
• Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped. He said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
  Job 1:20-21worshipsadnessworrying
• Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
  Matthew 10:39eternal lifelife
• He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 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 put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
  Matthew 27:28-29sacrificeeaster
• If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
  1 Corinthians 13:3lovegivingpride
• In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and 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
• How happy is the one whom God reproves;
  therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
  Job 5:17punishmentblessing
• To this day I have had help from God, and so I stand here, testifying to both small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would take place: that the Messiah must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.
  Acts 26:22-23evangelismresurrectionSavior