Bible Verses about “suffering”
The Bible contains 16 verses about suffering across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.”
“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
“‹These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.›”
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
“Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”
“And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”
“And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
“¶ But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].”
“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;”
“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”
“For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;”