Bible on Suffering

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

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

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: