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Suffering

experience

The experience of pain and hardship — and how it draws the soul toward God.

Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.

Relationships

related to Hope
related to Patience Grief Depression
reversed by Healing

Anchor Scriptures 17 verses

Old Testament
Isaiah 53:3

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”

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Lamentations 3:31

“For the Lord will not cast off for ever:”

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Proverbs 3:11

“My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:”

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Psalm 34:19

“Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”

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Job 23:10

“But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”

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New Testament
1 Peter 4:12

“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:”

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Romans 5:3

“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”

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2 Corinthians 4:17

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;”

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James 1:2

“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”

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Hebrews 5:8

“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;”

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1 Peter 1:6

“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:”

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Colossians 1:24

“Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:”

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Philippians 3:10

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”

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2 Timothy 2:12

“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:”

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2 Corinthians 1:3

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;”

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Romans 8:18

“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

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John 16:33

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

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