45 Bible Verses about Suffering, Of Believers

And you will be hated by all men on my account: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

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

But beware of men: for they will deliver you to the councils, and scourge you in their synagogues;

For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and kill you; and you will be hated by all nations on my account.

But you will be delivered up by parents and brothers and relatives and friends; and some of you they will put to death; and you will be hated by all for my name's sake.

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.

And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

For to you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but, also, to suffer for him,

Wonder not, my brethren, if the world hates you.

Fear none of the things which you are about to suffer; behold, the devil will throw some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

As it is written: For thy sake, we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

choosing rather to suffer evil with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach on account of the Christ as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he earnestly looked to the reward.

And they laid hands on them, and put them in prison till the next day, for it was already evening.

And they were persuaded by him; and when they had called the apostles in and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

he conversed and reasoned with the Hellenists; but they under took to kill him.

At that time Herod the king undertook to afflict some of the church. And he slew with the sword James the brother of John. And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he apprehended Peter also. Those were the days of unleavened bread.

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?

Have you suffered so many things in vain? if, indeed, it be in vain.

But having suffered before, and having been outraged, as you know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the midst of great peril.

They are amazed at this that you run not with them into the same excess of debauchery, and they revile you.

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings; partly, while you became a public spectacle, by reproaches and afflictions: partly, while you became partakers with those who were so treated. For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and endured joyfully the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account. Rejoice, and leap for joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: Blessed are you that are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh. Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and shall withdraw themselves from you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.read more.
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for behold, your reward is great in heaven: for so did their fathers to the prophets.

Then, they went from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were thought worthy to suffer shame for his name's sake.

Be not, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner: but jointly suffer evil in the gospel according to the power of God,

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

For it is better, if such be the will of God, that you suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.

Beloved, be not amazed at the fiery trial that has come on you to try you, as if some strange thing had happened to you. But, inasmuch as you are partakers of the sufferings of the Christ,, rejoice, that, at the revelation of his glory, you may also be exceedingly joyful. If you are reproached on account of Christ, happy are you: for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you. On their part he is reviled, but on your part he is glorified:read more.
for no one of you should suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. But if any one suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this account.

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not?

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

and, if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.

Henceforward let no one give me trouble: for I bear in my body the wounds which I received on account of the Lord Jesus.

so that we ourselves glory in you, among the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure; which endurance, of yours is a proof of the righteous judgment of God, in order that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you suffer:

But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

in which you rejoice, though now for a little while, since it is needful, you are in sorrow under various temptations; that your faith, when proved, being much more precious than gold, which perishes though it be tried by fire, may be found to be for praise and honor and glory, at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

always bearing about in our body the violent death of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what remains of my sufferings for Christ in my flesh for the sake of his body, which is the church,

For I will show him what great things he must suffer for my name.

except that in every city the Holy Spirit testifies to me, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me. But I esteem this a matter of no importance, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised. Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,read more.
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.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort, who con soles us in all our afflictions, so that we are able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings for the Christ abound in us, so also through Christ abounds our consolation.

My little children, for whom I again suffer the pains of gestation, till Christ be formed in you,