Quotes About Suffering

He chose to suffer oppression with Godís people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”

For it is better, if it is Godís will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.

Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.