39 Bible Verses about Pain

We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now.

And did not this woman, who is a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, have to be released from those bonds on the Sabbath day?"

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated.

His disciples asked him, "Master, for whose sin was this man born blind? For his own, or for that of his parents?" Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to let what God can do be illustrated in his case.

But the angel of the Lord struck him down immediately, because he did not give the honor to God; and he was eaten by worms and died.

The Lord's hand is right upon you, and you will be blind and unable even to see the sun for a time." Instantly a mist of darkness fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to lead him by the hand.

and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.

Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

When they reached the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, with the criminals one at his right and one at his left.

So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day. For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison, because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death. Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews. I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;read more.
with my frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from the heathen, danger in the city, danger in the desert, danger at sea, danger from false brothers, through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.

Then he said to them, "My heart is almost breaking. You must stay here and keep watch with me."

but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation, he said, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Come and see, Master." Jesus shed tears.

For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another.

We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.

When he comes, he will bring conviction to the world about sin and uprightness and judgment;

and came and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with her hair, and kissed them, and put the perfume on them.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me? You cannot kick against the goad!'

And if your eye makes you fall, tear it out. You might better get into the Kingdom of God with only one eye than be thrown with both your eyes into the pit, where the worm that feeds upon them never dies and the fire is never put out.

But I tell you that anyone who gets angry with his brother will have to answer to the court, and anyone who speaks contemptuously to his brother will have to answer to the great council, and anyone who says to his brother 'You cursed fool!' will have to answer for it in the fiery pit!

while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

There you will weep and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are put outside.

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and conceal us from the sight of him who is seated on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,

my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

and how I served the Lord most humbly and with tears, through all the trials that I encountered because of the plots of the Jews.

For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. For if I hurt your feelings, who is there to cheer me up but the man whose feelings I hurt? This is what I said in my letter, so that I might avoid coming and having my feelings hurt by the very people who might have been expected to make me happy, for I felt sure about you all, that what made me happy would make you all happy.read more.
For I was in great trouble and distress of mind when I wrote you, and I shed many tears as I did it, yet it was not to hurt your feelings, but to make you realize the extraordinary affection I have for you. But if anyone has hurt anybody's feelings, it is not so much mine, as yours, or at least those of some of you, not to be too hard upon you all.

And besides everything else, the thing that burdens me every day is my anxiety about all the churches.

For there are many who live, as I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, like enemies of the cross of Christ.

For Jesus in his life on earth offered prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and because of his piety his prayer was heard.

But this has all taken place in fulfilment of the writings of the prophets." Then all the disciples left him and made their escape.

When he went back to the disciples he found them asleep. And he said to Peter, "Then were you not able to watch with me for one hour?

After Jesus had said this he was greatly moved and said solemnly, "I tell you, it is one of you that will betray me!"

Have I turned into an enemy to you, by telling you the truth?

for Demas has deserted me for love of the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Therefore, those who suffer by the will of God must intrust their souls to a Creator who is faithful, and continue to do what is right.

"Your minds must not be troubled; you must believe in God, and believe in me.