'Suffering' in the Bible

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering! I put my slave in your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.”

He will require the woman to drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause bitter suffering.

“When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her thigh will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.

whatever prayer or petitionanyone from your people Israel might have—each man knowing his own affliction and suffering,and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.

For you will forget your suffering,recalling it only as waters that have flowed by.

Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,and if I hold back, what have I lost?

Now my life is poured out before my eyes,and days of suffering have seized me.

I am churning within and cannot rest;days of suffering confront me.

But He lifts the needy out of their sufferingand makes their families multiply like flocks.

He was despised and rejected by men,a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.He was like someone people turned away from;He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

In all their suffering, He suffered,and the Angel of His Presence saved them.He redeemed thembecause of His love and compassion;He lifted them up and carried themall the days of the past.

Woe to me because of my brokenness—I am severely wounded!I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,but I must bear it.”

Even if He causes suffering,He will show compassionaccording to His abundant, faithful love.

For He does not enjoy bringing afflictionor suffering on mankind.

You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

Then the news about Him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to Him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And He healed them.

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence, and the violent have been seizing it by force.

A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years

After He left the synagogue, He entered Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him about her.

A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years, who had spent all she had on doctors yet could not be healed by any,

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

Then a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.

Publius’s father was in bed suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, and praying and laying his hands on him, he healed him.

It is a clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment that you will be counted worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you also are suffering,

So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me His prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

But we do see Jesus—made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone—crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering in death.

Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.

Brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name as an example of suffering and patience.

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.

For it brings favor if, mindful of God’s will, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.

when He was reviled,He did not revile in return;when He was suffering,He did not threatenbut entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.

suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you.