Bible Verses about โsufferingโ
The Bible contains 16 verses about suffering across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โWe know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.โ
โknowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.โ
โCount it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,โ
โLet endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.โ
โI have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."โ
โHe will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."โ
โMany are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.โ
โNot only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;โ
โand perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:โ
โFor I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.โ
โand hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.โ
โBut 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.โ
โYes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.โ
โFor our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;โ
โthat I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;โ
โBecause it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,โ
