Bible Verses About Suffering

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.

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.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

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.

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.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing .

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

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.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

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.

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ;