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Bible Verses About Pain and Suffering
Find Bible verses about pain and suffering — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about pain and suffering?
The Bible addresses pain and suffering 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
Isaiah 53:3
“He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.”
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Hebrews 2:9
“But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.”
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Romans 5:3
“Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;”
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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?”
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James 5:13
“Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.”
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1 Peter 2:19
“For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.”
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."”
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!”
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.”
James 5:10
“Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.”
Isaiah 53:4
“Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.”
Romans 8:18
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.”
Romans 8:22
“For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.”
Job 14:22
“But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."”
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