12 Bible Verses About Suffering

Dear friends, the fire that is burning among you has come to test you; do not be taken aback by it, as though something alien to you were happening. No, the more you share in the sufferings of Christ, the more you should rejoice, so that you may also rejoice with shouts of joy when his glory is revealed.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father and the God from whom all comfort comes. He comforts us in every hardship we face, so that we in turn can comfort people facing any hardship, passing on to them the same comfort God gives us.

More than that, we boast even in our troubles, because we know that trouble leads to endurance, endurance to proven character, and proven character to hope.

For God has given you the gift, for the sake of Christ, not only of believing in him but also of suffering for him.

It was for this that God called you, because Christ also suffered for you and left you a pattern to copy, so that you would walk in his footsteps.

For as the sufferings of Christ overflow into our lives, so our comfort also overflows through Christ.

I want to know him, to know the power of his resurrection and what it is to share in his sufferings, as I am being shaped into the likeness of his death,

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore you, make you firm and strong, and set you on a sure foundation.

If we are children, we are also heirs. We are God’s heirs, and we inherit alongside Christ, if we suffer together with him so that we will also be glorified together with him.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

Having suffered himself in being tested, he is able to come to the aid of those who are being tested.