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Bible Verses About Pain
Find Bible verses about pain — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about pain?
The Bible addresses pain with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Genesis 3:16
“To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."”
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Psalms 73:16
“When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;”
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Romans 8:22
“For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.”
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Psalms 38:17
“For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.”
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Micah 4:10
“Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go forth out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.”
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John 16:21
“A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the w...”
Jeremiah 15:18
“Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?”
Jeremiah 22:23
“Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!”
Isaiah 26:17
“Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.”
1 Peter 2:19
“For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.”
Job 33:19
“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;”
Revelation 12:2
“She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.”
Jeremiah 45:3
“You said, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”
Romans 9:2
“that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.”
Jeremiah 30:15
“Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.”
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Psalms 69:29 — “But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me....”
Job 14:22 — “But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."...”
Isaiah 38:13 — “I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you wil...”
1 Chronicles 4:9 — “Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore ...”
Jeremiah 51:29 — “The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the l...”
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