26 Bible Verses about Suffering, Hardship

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

For the poor ye have always with you, and whenever ye will, ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.

For the poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always.

And when he had tasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.

forty days, tempted by the Devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

Behold, the hire of the laborers who reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, crieth out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

And when the fourteenth night had come on, as we were driven onward in the Adriatic sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were near some country; and sounding, they found twenty fathoms; and having gone a little further and sounded again, they found fifteen fathoms; then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for day.read more.
And as the sailors were seeking means to escape from the ship, when they had lowered the boat into the sea, under the pretence that they were about to carry out anchors from the foreship, Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, If these men do not stay in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Then the soldiers cut off 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 ye have waited, and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I exhort you to take food; for this is for your safety; for there shall not a hair be lost from the head of one of you. And having thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all, and having broken it, he began to eat. Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took food. And there were of us in the ship in all two hundred and seventysix souls. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting out the grain into the sea. And when it was day, they did not know the land; but they observed a certain creek having a beach, into which they determined, if possible, to run the ship. And cutting away the anchors, they left them in the sea, and at the same time unfastening the rudderbands, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made toward the beach. And falling into a place having the sea on both sides, they ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck fast, and remained immovable, but the stern was breaking to pieces with the violence [of the waves]. And on the part of the soldiers there was a plan to kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim out and escape. But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and ordered those who could swim to cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land, and the rest, some on boards, and others on something from the ship. And in this way it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to land.

but as Gods ministers recommending ourselves in all things, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

And when they had published the glad tidings to that city, and had made many disciples, they went back to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch; confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that it is through many afflictions that we mast enter into the kingdom of God.

Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace, and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it; being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep;read more.
by journeyings often; by perils of rivers, by perils of robbers, by perils from my countrymen, by perils from the heathen, by perils in the city, by perils in the wilderness, by perils in the sea, by perils among false brethren; by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides the other troubles, there is that which presseth upon me daily, the anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is in danger of stumbling, and I do not burn?

Not that I speak on account of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content. I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound; in every thing and in all things I have been well taught, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want; I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me.read more.
Notwithstanding, ye did well in sharing with me in my distress.

Endure hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

For ye sympathized with those in bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and an enduring substance.

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy; they wandered in deserts and mountains, and caves and the clefts of the earth.

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he, whom the father chasteneth not?

and thou hast endurance, and hast borne on account of my name, and hast not become weary.

yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead;

and ye will be hated by all on account of my name. But he that endureth to the end will be saved.

And ye will be hated by all on account of my name. But he that endureth to the end will be saved.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.

Behold, we count those happy who have endured. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; behold also the end of the Lord, that he is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

For this is acceptable, if any one on account of a sense of duty to God endureth hardships, suffering wrongfully.