20 Bible Verses about Suffering, Emotional Aspects Of

this I Paul have frequently attempted, but Satan has been my obstacle.

Then Herod perceiving he was abused by the Magi, was full of indignation, and sent a detachment who slew all the children that were in Bethlehem and its territory, being under the age of two years, according to the limited time he had learnt of the Magi. Then was fulfilled that passage of Jeremy the prophet, "In Rama was a cry heard, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not."

Mary being come to the place where Jesus was, as soon as she saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not been dead. when Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed from his heart, and was troubled, and said, where have ye laid him? they said to him, Lord, come and see.read more.
then Jesus wept.

being more particularly afflicted at his having said, "they should see his face no more." and then they conducted him to the ship.

there will be weeping, and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

afterwards came the other virgins likewise, and cry'd,

men dying with fear under the apprehension of those calamities, which are coming upon the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

At the same time, Judas who had betrayed him, finding that he was condemned, repented, and carried back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and senators, saying, I have sinned in betraying the blood of the innocent: and they said, what is it to us? you must look to that.

and when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, of justice, of judgment:

Now when they heard this, their hearts were struck with remorse, and they said to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?

for then they would not have been repeated, because they who sacrificed being once purified, would not have been conscious of wanting any further atonement for their sins:

and he said to them, "my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death:" stay here and watch by me.

even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.

besides these troubles from without, that which crouds upon me daily, the care of all the churches. who is afflicted, and I not suffer? who is offended, and I not inflam'd?

I call Christ, and the holy spirit to witness with my conscience, that I speak the truth without guile, when I say, that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,read more.
who are Israelites; who had the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law, the form of divine worship, and the promises;

I am daily receiving new mortifications, witness your cruel boastings against me, which I bear for the sake of Christ Jesus our Lord;

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of that insupportable weight of affliction that over-whelm'd me so in Asia that I despaired even of life: nay, I abandon'd my self to death, that I might not rely upon my self for deliverance, but on God who raiseth the dead.

my dear children, how am I in pain, till Christ be formed in you?

at which they were exceedingly concern'd, and began every one of them to ask, Lord, is it I?

and they were seized with sorrow, all successively asking him, is it I?