26 Bible Verses about Suffering, Hardship

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John 12:8

For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.

Acts 27:27-44

But when the fourteenth night had come, and we were drifting up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors supposed that they were drawing near some land. And they sounded, and found twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, and sounded again, they found fifteen fathoms. And fearing that we would fall upon rocks, they threw out four anchors from the stern, and wished for day.read more.
And as the sailors were attempting to flee from the ship, and were letting down the boat into the sea, under the pretext that they were about to let down anchors from the prow, Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers: Unless these remain in the ship, you can not be saved. Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off. And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take food, saying: This is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense, and continued without food, having taken nothing. Wherefore, I exhort you to take food; for this will pro mote your safety. For not a hair shall fall from the head of any of you. And when he had said this, he took bread, and gave thanks to God before them all, and broke, and began to eat. And all became cheerful, and also partook of food. And all of us that were in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six souls. When they were satisfied with food, they lightened the ship by throwing the provisions into the sea. And when it was day, they did not recognize the land; but they perceived an inlet, that had an accessible shore, into which they desired, if they could, to thrust the ship. And, after cutting away the anchors, they committed the ship to the sea, at the same time loosing the lashings of the rudders: and they set up the front sail to the wind, and kept the ship firmly toward the shore. And falling into a place where two cur rents met, they ran the ship aground, and the prow stuck fast, and remained immovable; but the stern was broken by the violence of the waves. The soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest some of them should swim out and escape. But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, to throw themselves into the sea first, and get to land; and then the rest, some on planks, and others on what could be taken from the ship. And thus it came to pass, that all got safe to land.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but in all things we commend ourselves as the ministers of God, in much suffering, in afflictions, in distresses, in straits, in stripes, in prisons,, in commotions, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Acts 14:21-22

and when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, that through many afflictions we mast enter the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 4:11-13

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home, and labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we entreat; we have become like the outcasts of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.

2 Corinthians 1:8-9

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which came upon us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. But we have in ourselves the sentence of death, that we may not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead;

2 Corinthians 11:23-29

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one; three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three- times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I spent in the deep.read more.
In journeying s often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and in toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I am not incensed?

Philippians 4:11-14

I do not speak in respect to want: for I have learned, in whatever condition I am, to be content. I know what it is to be in want, and what it is to have abundance. Everywhere and in all things, I have been fully instructed in being full and in being hungry, in having abundance and in being in want. I am able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me.read more.
Yet you have done well in contributing to the relief of my affliction.

Hebrews 11:37-38

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in. sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, oppressed with evils, (of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts, and in mountains, and in caverns, and in dens of the earth.

Mark 13:13

and you will be hated by all on my account. But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

1 Peter 2:19

For this is praiseworthy, if any one, on account of conscience to ward God, endure sorrows, suffering unjustly.

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