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Bible Verses About Pain and Hurt
Find Bible verses about pain and hurt — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about pain and hurt?
The Bible addresses pain and hurt 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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Isaiah 11:9
“They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.”
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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 b...”
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...”
Luke 10:19
“Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.”
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?”
Job 35:8
“Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.”
Proverbs 23:35
“"They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."”
Isaiah 65:25
“The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says Yahweh.”
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.”
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Jeremiah 8:21 — “For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me....”
1 Samuel 24:9 — “David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'...”
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 ...”
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