Bible Verses About Suffering (34+ Verses)

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance."

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

"Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life."

"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all."

"Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance."

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."

"I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings."

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you."

"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain."

"For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ."

"Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: and 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."

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."

"Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all."

"Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:"

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

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

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

"Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."

"He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him."

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

"Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;"

"Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters. But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter. For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God? “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?” Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator."

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

"For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,"

"He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me."

"Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”"

"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."

"If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing."

"Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—"

"He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it."

"He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth."

"They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him. They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”"