If God is good, why is there so much suffering?

¹How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? ²How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Psalms 13:1-2 (WEB) · context

³He 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.

Isaiah 53:3 (WEB) · context

⁴He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”

Revelation 21:4 (WEB) · context

²Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Psalms 111:2 (WEB) · context

²⁵Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,

Jeremiah 33:25 (WEB) · context

¹¹Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Acts 17:11 (WEB) · context

²¹For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:21 (WEB) · context

¹⁶Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:16 (WEB) · context

¹⁵But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

1 Peter 3:15 (WEB) · context

⁴that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

Luke 1:4 (WEB) · context

³To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

Acts 1:3 (WEB) · context

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 14:6 (WEB) · context

¹²There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Acts 4:12 (WEB) · context

²Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Psalms 90:2 (WEB) · context

¹⁷He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Colossians 1:17 (WEB) · context

¹¹Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’

Ezekiel 33:11 (WEB) · context

²⁶to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3:26 (WEB) · context

¹The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Psalms 19:1 (WEB) · context

²⁰For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

Romans 1:20 (WEB) · context

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 14:6 (WEB) · context

³⁸Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.

John 18:38 (WEB) · context

³¹He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Mark 8:31 (WEB) · context

⁵⁸Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

John 8:58 (WEB) · context

²²You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

John 4:22 (WEB) · context

⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

John 5:46 (WEB) · context