Bible Verses About Suffering

"To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings and one who also will share in the glory to be revealed:"

"Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings."

"Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory."

"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us."

"trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow."

"For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God."

"Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you."

"But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed."

"You became imitators of us and of the Lord; in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit."

"For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows."

"If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer."

"And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort."

"So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God,"

"That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day."

"for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained."

"persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them."

"Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you."

"I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory."

"In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering."

"Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering."

"Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering."

"On the day the Lord gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage,"

"He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not."

"After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities."

"Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord."