48 Bible Verses about Suffering, Of Believers

And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.

And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake: and he having remained to the end, the same shall be saved.

And hold ye from men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their assemblies will they scourge you.

Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and the wise, and scribes: and of them shall ye kill and crucify; and of them shall ye chastise in your assemblies, and drive out from city to city,

Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name.

And ye shall also be delivered up by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and they shall put of you to death. And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake.

And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.

And all wishing to live devotedly in Christ Jesus shall be driven out.

For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;

Be not amazed, my brethren, if the world hate you.

Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time; Having deemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the payment of reward.

And they put hands upon them, and set in guard for the morrow: for it was already evening.

And by him they were persuaded: and having called the sent, having stripped, they enjoined not to speak in the name of Jesus, and loosed them.

And he spake and sought out with the Greeks; but they purposed to kill him.

And at that time Herod the king laid hands upon to injure certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added also to take Peter. (They were the days of unleavened bread.)

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often. Of the Jews five times I received forty, except one. Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep;read more.
In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren; In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things outside, my distraction daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I am not inflamed

Suffered ye so many things in vain? if yet also in vain.

But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest.

In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming:

And recall to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye endured a great combat of sufferings; This, truly, being exposed to public view both by reproaches and pressures; and this, having been partakers of those thus overturned. For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens. Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake. Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you.

And he having lifted up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Happy the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh. Happy are ye, when men hate you, and when they separate you, and reproach, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.read more.
Rejoice in that day, and skip: for, behold, your reward much in heaven: for according to these did their fathers to the prophets.

Truly therefore they went rejoicing from the face of the council, that for his name they were deemed worthy to be dishonoured.

Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God;

For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly.

Fur better, doing good, if the will of God will, to suffer, than doing evil.

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy. If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.read more.
For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others. And if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him praise God in this portion.

If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?

If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.

For the rest let none cause me fatigues: for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body

So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure: (A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.

Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.

Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back

Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit.

By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations: That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

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

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.

They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing. He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.

For I will show him what he must suffer for my name.

But that the Holy Spirit testifies in the city, saying that bonds and pressures await me. But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

For I think that God has exhibited us the last sent, as exposed to death; for we were a theatre to the world, and to messengers, and to men. We foolish for Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we weak, and ye strong; ye honourable, and we dishonoured Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady.read more.
And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, and God of all comfort: Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so by Christ abounds also our comfort.

My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,