And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Matthew 3:15, KJV
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew 11:12, KJV
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
Matthew 17:10-13, KJV
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark 8:31, KJV
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:5, KJV
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
1 Timothy 4:9-10, KJV
Assuredly no science of letters can be so innate as the record of conscience, "that he is doing to another what from another he would be loth to suffer."
Augustine, Confessions
beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no means suffer? yet he desires as a spectator to feel sorrow at them, this very sorrow is his pleasure.
Augustine, Confessions
Let no one prevail over me, for it is better that I should suffer punishment from Thy hand. Let it suffice that I am ashamed in Thy presence; make me not ashamed before my fellow men
Saadi, Bustan
They that are captive in the coils of His love, seek not to escape; they suffer reproach, but are monarchs in the seclusion of their meditation, and their way is not known
Saadi, Bustan
As one in suffering all that suffers nothing
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
sufferre /sufferre/
Classical Latin, Roman Empire
suffrir /suffrir/
Old French, France
suffren /suffren/
Middle English, England