50 Bible Verses About Suffering

“Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.”

“Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?”

“I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.”

“I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that GodThe Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim). has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.”

“For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.”

“I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.”

“Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.”

“Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring.or, seed He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.”

“After the suffering of his soul, he will see the lightSo read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. Masoretic Text omits “the light”. and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.”

“Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.”

“Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.”

“that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”Isaiah 53:4”

“Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.”

“Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?””

“But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.”

“Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;”

“and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.”

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.”

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”

“rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;”

“For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”

“We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.”

“For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.”

“But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.”

“Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.”

“For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;”

“but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,”

“Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.”

“Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,”

“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;”

“but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.”

“For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.”

“so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.”

“For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.”

“in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.”

“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.”

“For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”

“though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.”

“looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

“Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.”

“Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.”

“Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,”

“searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.”

“For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.”

“For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.”

“But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”Isaiah 8:12”

“For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.”

“But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.”

“But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”

“and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;”