Scripture Refuge

Bible Verses About Suffering

Scriptures anchoring us in seasons of pain.

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Experiencing deep pain and hardship is not the final chapter of your story. God is a Master Weaver who can turn even the most difficult threads into a beautiful tapestry of redemption. He who did not spare His own Son enters fully into our suffering to carry us through the fire. As you anchor your soul in His faithfulness, remember that our present trials are producing an eternal weight of glory.

Key Passages

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

"But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."

"Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."

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"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."

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

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

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

"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee."

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

"And he said unto me,My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

"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 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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;"

"The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:"

"And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation."

"And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation."

"For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you."

"And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand."

"The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing."

"The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked."

"A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again."

"Then Jesus answered and said,O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me."

"And he answered and told them,Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought."

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