Sometimes we see suffering as an interruption to normal life.

I went through each chapter in the New Testament to see if we should expect suffering to be part of our lives as Christians.

Here are my notes….

Matthew

• 1 Unwilling to put her to shame
• 2 Weeping for her children; refused comfort
• 3 His food was locusts and wild honey
• 4 After fasting forty days, he was hungry
• 5 Blessed are those who mourn
• 6 When you fast, wash your face
• 7 The way is hard that leads to life
• 8 The Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head
• 9 They will mourn when the bridegroom is taken
• 10 When they persecute you, flee to the next town
• 11 John is in prison and asks if Jesus is the one
• 12 The Pharisees conspired against him
• 13 And they took offense at him
• 14 He sent and had John beheaded in the prison
• 15 This people honors me with their lips, but…
• 16 Must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things
• 17 And they were greatly distressed
• 18 Forgive your brother from your heart
• 19 A camel to go through the eye of a needle
• 20 Mocked and flogged and crucified
• 21 Your king is humble, mounted on a donkey
• 22 Seized his servants, treated them shamefully
• 23 Your house is left to you desolate
• 24 There will be great tribulation
• 25 Take the talent from him
• 26 Jesus began to be sorrowful and troubled
• 27 They spit on him and struck him on the head
• 28 –

Mark

• 1 And he was in the wilderness forty days
• 2 when the bridegroom is taken, they will fast
• 3 Crowd gathered so they could not even eat
• 4 Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?
• 5 They began to beg Jesus to depart
• 6 Herod seized John and bound him in prison
• 7 –
• 8 The Christ must suffer many things
• 9 Going to be delivered into the hands of men
• 10 Receive a hundredfold… with persecutions
• 11 –
• 12 They treated him shamefully
• 13 Such great tribulation as has not been
• 14 Some began to spit on him and strike him
• 15 Striking his head and spitting on him
• 16 As they mourned and wept

Luke

• 1 They had no child, Elizabeth was barren
• 2 Waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem
• 3 He locked up John in prison
• 4 For forty days, he ate nothing, he was hungry
• 5 He would withdraw to desolate places and pray
• 6 Blessed are you who weep now
• 7 John the Baptist has come eating no bread
• 8 They were filling with water and were in danger
• 9 The Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head
• 10 Sending you out as lambs among wolves
• 11 Some of you they will kill and persecute
• 12 Do you think that I come to give peace?
• 13 Blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices
• 14 Invite those who cannot repay you
• 15 Longing to be fed with what the pigs ate
• 16 Lazarus was hungry and covered with sores
• 17 But first he must suffer many things
• 18 He will be mocked and shamefully treated
• 19 Enemies will  tear you down to the ground
• 20 But they also beat and treated him shamefully
• 21 Great earthquakes, famines and persecution
• 22 And being in agony, his sweat was like blood
• 23 A great multitude mourning and lamenting
• 24 Had hoped he was the one to redeem Israel

John

• 1 –
• 2 Destroy this temple (his body)
• 3 So must the Son of Man be lifted up
• 4  A prophet has no honor in his own hometown
• 5 The Jews were seeking to kill him
• 6 Judas was going to betray him
• 7 Some wanted to arrest him
• 8 So they picked up stones to throw at him
• 9 And they cast him out
• 10 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him
• 11 So that they might arrest him
• 12 He blinded their eyes, hardened their hearts
• 13 One of you will betray me
• 14 –
• 15 –
• 16 They will put you out of the synagogues
• 17 I do not ask you to take them out of the world
• 18 Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given?
• 19 And struck him with their hands
• 20 Doors locked for fear of the Jews
• 21 Will carry you where you do not want to go

Acts

• 1 Jesus came to them after his suffering
• 2 But others mocked
• 3 The prophets foretold that Christ would suffer
• 4 When they had further threatened them
• 5 Counted worthy of suffering dishonor
• 6 A complaint arose about the daily distribution
• 7 Enraged, they ground their teeth at him
• 8 Dragged off men and women to prison
• 9 I will show him how much he must suffer
• 10 –
• 11 Predicted a great famine for the whole world
• 12 Peter was kept in prison
• 13 They were worshiping the Lord and fasting
• 14 Through many tribulations we must enter
• 15 Some have troubled you, unsettling your minds
• 16 Inflicted many blows and threw them in prison
• 17 Explaining it was necessary for Christ to suffer
• 18 They opposed and reviled him
• 19 Dragged Paul’s companions into the theater
• 20 In every city imprisonment and afflictions await
• 21 The Jews will bind the man who owns this belt
• 22 Imprisoned and beat those who believed
• 23 Afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them
• 24 Felix left Paul in prison
• 25 Planning an ambush to kill him on the way
• 26 The Jews seized me and tried to kill me
• 27 All hope of being saved was at last abandoned
• 28 For the hope of Israel I am wearing this chain

Romans

• 1 Receiving in themselves the penalty for error
• 2 Tribulation for everyone who does evil
• 3 In their paths are ruin and misery
• 4 He received the sign of circumcision
• 5 We rejoice in our sufferings
• 6 –
• 7 Wretched man that I am!
• 8 We are heirs if we suffer with him
• 9 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish
• 10 –
• 11 God gave them a spirit of stupor
• 12 Be patient in tribulation
• 13 He carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer
• 14 –
• 15 I have so often been hindered from coming
• 16 My fellow prisoners

1 Corinthians

• 1 God chose what is low and despised
• 2 In weakness and fear and much trembling
• 3 –
• 4 We hunger and thirst and are homeless
• 5 Ought you not rather to mourn?
• 6 Why not rather suffer wrong?
• 7 Those who marry will have worldly troubles
• 8 –
• 9 I have not made use of any rights
• 10 –
• 11 This is why many of you are weak and ill
• 12 If one member suffers, all suffer together
• 13 –
• 14 –
• 15 I fought with beasts at Ephesus
• 16 –

2 Corinthians

• 1 So utterly burdened we despaired of life itself
• 2 Much affliction and anguish of heart
• 3 –
• 4 Our light and momentary affliction
• 5 While in this tent we groan
• 6 Afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings,…
• 7 We were afflicted at every turn
• 8 The churches severe test of affliction
• 9 –
• 10 His presence is weak, speech of no account
• 11 More imprisonments, beatings, lashes,…
• 12 Content with weaknesses, insults, hardships
• 13 Test yourselves, to see if you are in faith

Galatians

• 1 Some who trouble you
• 2 Remember the poor
• 3 Did you suffer so many things in vain?
• 4 My bodily ailment was a trial to you
• 5 Why am I still being persecuted?
• 6 I bear on my body the marks of Jesus

Ephesians

• 1 –
• 2 –
• 3 Do not lose heart over what I am suffering
• 4 –
• 5 –
• 6 Bring them up in the discipline of the Lord

Philippians

• 1 Granted to you to suffer for Christ’s sake
• 2 Poured out as a drink offering
• 3 For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things
• 4 It was good of you to share my trouble

Colossians

• 1 I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake
• 2 How great a struggle I have for you
• 3 Bearing with one another
• 4 On account of which I am in prison

1 Thessalonians

• 1 Received the word in much affliction
• 2 Suffered and been shamefully treated
• 3 We kept telling you we would suffer affliction
• 4 –
• 5 –

2 Thessalonians

• 1 Worthy of the kingdom for which you suffer
• 2 –
• 3 We worked night and day to not be a burden

1 Timothy

• 1 –
• 2 –
• 3 –
• 4 To this end we toil and strive
• 5 Use a little wine for your stomach ailments
• 6 –

2 Timothy

• 1 Which is why I suffer as I do
• 2 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ
• 3 There will come times of difficulty
• 4 I am being poured out like a drink offering

Titus

• 1 –
• 2 Bondservants submit to their masters
• 3 –

Philemon

• 1 My fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus

Hebrews

• 1 Long ago God spoke through the prophets
• 2 Should make him perfect through suffering
• 3 –
• 4 Not a high priest who is unable to sympathize
• 5 He learned obedience through what he suffered
• 6 Through faith and patience inherit promises
• 7 –
• 8 –
• 9 –
• 10 You endured a hard struggle with sufferings
• 11 Abraham was tested and offered up Isaac
• 12 All discipline seems painful, not pleasant
• 13 Jesus also suffered outside the gate

James

• 1 Count it all joy when you meet trials
• 2 The ones who oppress you
• 3 We all stumble in many ways
• 4 Let your laughter be turned to mourning
• 5 An example of suffering and patience

1 Peter

• 1 You have been grieved by various trials
• 2 Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example
• 3 Suffer for righteousness, you’ll be blessed
• 4 Not surprised when a trial comes to test you
• 5 Suffering by your brothers throughout the world

2 Peter

• 1 –
• 2 –
• 3 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise

1 John

• 1 –
• 2 –
• 3 –
• 4 –
• 5 –

2 John

• 1 –

3 John

• 1 –

Jude

• 1 In the last time there will be scoffers

Revelation

• 1 –
• 2 Endured patiently and not grown weary
• 3 The hour of trial that is coming
• 4 –
• 5 –
• 6 Hid themselves in the caves
• 7 These are coming out of the great tribulation
• 8 Woe to those who dwell on the earth
• 9 They will long to die, but death will flee
• 10 –
• 11 Strike the earth with every kind of plague
• 12 Woe to you, O earth and sea
• 13 Make war on the saints and to conquer them
• 14 Smoke of their torment goes up forever
• 15 –
• 16 Painful sores came upon the people
• 17 Drunk with the blood of the saints
• 18 Threw dust on their heads as they wept
• 19 –
• 20 –
• 21 Mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore
• 22 Let the filthy still be filthy