Quotes About Suffering

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.

Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?

or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.

As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,

He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.