Suffering

Suffering is "physical or mental pain that a person or animal is feeling".

Suffering and Christianity

See also: Problem of evil and Theodicy

The Bible is the best-selling book of all time.

Between 5 to 7 billion Bibles have been published.

Saint Paul wrote: "And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us." - Romans 5: 3-4 (NRSV)

Bible verses on suffering:

• Bible verses on suffering, Dailyverses.net

• Bible versus on suffering, Biblestudytools.com

• Suffering, Openbible.info

Articles:

• What Does the Bible Say about Suffering?, Christianity.com

• What Does The Bible Say About Suffering?

• Called to Suffer, Ligonier Ministries

Christ on the Cross by Jacques Louis David.

Suffering and Buddhism

(Sanskrit duḥkha), or pain in one sense, is the first of the Four Noble Truths.

Alternative Translations of the Sanskrit work "Duhkha":

• frustration
• stress (Jon Kabat-Zin)

See also

• Four Noble Truths
• Dependent origination: Interdependence
• Five Precepts
• Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
• Refuge
• Bodhisattva - Buddha

• Hinduism: Upanishads and Vedas
• Yoga
• Ten Commandments of Judaism and Christianity