26 Bible Verses about Suffering, Hardship

for the poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.

The poor you have always with you, and you can do them good when you will; but me you have not always.

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

And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry.

being tempted by the devil forty days. And he eat nothing in those days; and when they were completed he was hungry.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and weariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry, and the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

And on the fourteenth night, when we were borne along in the Adriatic, at about midnight the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them. And sounding they found twenty fathoms, and going a little distance and sounding again they found fifteen fathoms; and fearing lest we should fall on rough places, casting out four anchors from the stern, they prayed for day.read more.
And the sailors seeking to escape from the ship, and letting down the boat into the sea, with the pretence that they were about to put out anchors from the fore part of the ship, Paul said to the centurion and soldiers, Unless these continue in the ship you cannot be saved. Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the boat and let it fall off. And when day was about to appear, Paul exhorted all to take food, saying, It is the fourteenth day to-day that you have watched and continued without food, taking nothing. Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food; for this is necessary to your safety, for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you. And having said these things, and taken bread, he thanked God before all, and having broken began to eat. And all being in good spirits they also partook of food; and all the souls in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six. And being satisfied with food they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea. And when it was day they did not know the land, but they perceived a bay having a shore, on which they wished if possible to thrust the ship. And taking up the anchors, they committed [the ship] to the sea, loosening at the same time the fastenings of the rudder and raising the top sail to the wind, they bore down towards the shore. And falling on a place with a sea on both sides, they run the ship aground. And the bow being firmly fixed, remained immoveable; and the stern was broken by violence. And the design of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, that none might escape by swimming; but the centurion wishing to save Paul, prohibited them from this design, and commanded those able to swim to cast themselves into the water first, and go to the land; and the rest, some on boards, and some on parts of the ship; and in this way all were brought safely to land.

but in every thing commending ourselves as ministers of God, in great patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in dissensions, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,

for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, though rich, that you by his poverty might be rich.

And having preached the good news to that city, and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch, confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Even to this hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled, and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure, being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed beyond our power, so that we despaired even of life; but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often; five times I received of the Jews forty [stripes] lacking one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in the deep;read more.
often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers, in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I am not displeased?

Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented. I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to abound; in every thing and in all conditions I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer want. I endure all things with him that strengthens me.read more.
But you did well to communicate with my affliction,

Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and openings of the earth.

If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?

and you have patience, and suffered for my name, and did not faint.

but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

and you shall be hated by all men for my sake. But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

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

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Behold, we account them blessed who are patient. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, that he is very merciful and compassionate.

For this deserves thanks, if on account of a knowledge of God one endures pain, suffering unjustly.