43 Bible Verses about Suffering, Encouragements In

But the Lord said, I fear what the unjust judge says. And shall not God avenge His elect, crying to Him day and night, and He is long-suffering over them?

for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved me as a friend, and you have believed that I came out from God.

And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them through my name whom thou hast given unto me, in order that they may be one, as we are.

Indeed he who spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not with him, freely give us all things?

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation;

For in that he himself suffered being tempted, he is able to succor those who are tempted.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised,

My peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor afraid.

Therefore you indeed also now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one taketh your joy from you.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As has been written, that We are killed all day for thy sake; we are counted as sheep of the slaughter. But in all these we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.read more.
For I am persuaded that, neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched with our infirmities; but one having been tempted as to all things like unto us, apart from sin.

wherefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those coming unto God through him, ever living to intercede for them.

For consider him who has endured so great a contradiction of sinners against himself, in order that you may not become weary, fainting in your souls.

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you always, the Spirit of truth: which the world is not able to receive, because it does not see Him, nor know Him: you know Him: because He abideth with you, and shall be in you.

If then you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, then how much more will your Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?

and hope makes not ashamed; because the divine love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who has been given unto us.

And likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmity. For we know not what we should pray for as it behooves us: but the Spirit himself makes intercession with unutterable groanings:

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, holiness; against such things there is no law.

If you suffer reproach in the name of Christ, happy are you, because the spirit of the glory and the spirit of God rest on you.

But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose.

And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide on me.

Therefore be not solicitous, saying, What can we eat? or what can we drink? or with what can we be clothed? For after all these things the heathen were seeking; for your heavenly Father knoweth that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

For so many things as were previously written were written for our instruction, in order that through the patience and through the consolation of the scriptures we may have hope.

And the peace of God, that passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

But the God of all grace, the one having called you into his own eternal glory in Christ, will himself make you perfect, having suffered a little while, will establish you, will strengthen you, will settle you.

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

Not that I speak concerning deficiency: for I have learned to be content with those things amid which I am.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he was looking unto the recompense of reward.

Brethren, receive the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering evil and longsuffering. Behold, we pronounce them happy who have endured: you have heard the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, because the Lord is very merciful, and sympathetic.

Therefore exhort one another, and edify either the other, as you indeed are doing.

And the brethren, hearing the news concerning us, came thence to meet us at the Appian Forum and Three Taverns: whom Paul, seeing, having given thanks to God, took courage.

who laid down their neck for my life; and for whom not I alone hut all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;

But God, the one comforting the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus; and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted by you, proclaiming unto us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

Moreover you did beautifully, communicating with my tribulation.

and Jesus, called Justus, who being of the circumcision: these are my only fellow-laborers in the kingdom of God, who have been made a comfort to me.

as you know, exhorting each one of you, as a father of his own children, and comforting you, and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

So comfort one another with these words.

Hasten to come to me quickly.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the custom to some; but exhorting: and this the more, as you see the days drawing nigh.

But in all these we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

The God of peace will speedily crush Satan beneath your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruit of them that slept.

because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, will at the same time along with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord.