Quotes About Suffering

On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.

I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.

I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.

Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,

that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.

ruin and misery lie in their wake,

Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”

For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.