What the Bible Says About Suffering
God doesn't waste suffering.
Scripture doesn't dismiss pain or pretend it isn't real — it tells the truth about it, and it tells the truth about a God who walks through it with us and uses it for good.
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✨ Ask the Bible →Suffering in Scripture (KJV)
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.
The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed.
Read in context →For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory.
Read in context →But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
After ye have suffered a while, the God of all grace make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Read in context →My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Count it all joy — the trying of your faith works patience, which leads to completeness.
Read in context →And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
All things work together for good — not all things ARE good, but God works them for good.
Read in context →Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
God comforts us in tribulation so that we may comfort others. Suffering becomes ministry.
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