2 Corinthians 4:8
We are afflicted on every side, yet not reduced to extremities; under difficulties, yet not in despair;
2 Corinthians 7:5
For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings; within were fears.
Romans 8:35-37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall distress of circumstances, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
John 14:18
I will not leave you orphans: I am coming to you.
Romans 5:3-5
And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience;
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the tribulation which came to us in Asia, that above measure we have been burdened beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life:
2 Corinthians 4:16-17
Therefore we never faint; for though our outward man decay, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,
2 Corinthians 11:23-30
Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.
James 1:2-4
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials;
1 Peter 1:6-7
Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials:
1 Peter 4:12-14
Beloved, be not amazed at the fiery trial among you which is to bring you to the test, as though something strange happened to you;