Suffering

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.