62 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints

Shout, ye heavens, and rejoice thou earth; and the mountains shall break forth with shouting: for Jehovah comforted his people and he will pity his afflicted.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old men together: and I turned their mourning to joy, and I comforted them and caused them to rejoice from their sorrow.

Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted.

Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.

But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus;

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Rejoicing in hope; holding out under pressure; persevering in prayer;

So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure:

And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.

And thou art just for all brought upon us; for thou didst the truth and we were evil:

And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.

Thou mettest him rejoicing and doing justice, they shall remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wert angry; and we shall sin in them of old, and we shall be saved. And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away. And none calling upon thy name, none rousing himself to take hold upon thee: for thou hiddest thy face from us, and thou wilt melt us by the hand of our iniquities.

Why shall a living man murmur? a man for his sin?

The anger of Jehovah I will bear, for I sinned against him till he shall maintain my contention, and do my judgment: he will bring me forth to the light, I shall look upon his justice.

These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world shall ye have pressure; but take courage; I have conquered the world.

To call the year of acceptance to Jehovah, and the day of vengeance to our God; to comfort all those mourning;

Come to me, all ye wearied and loaded, and I will cause you to rest. Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is useful, and my load is light.

And having seen her, the Lord felt compassion for her and said to her, Weep not.

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, and believe in me.

Lest mine enemy shall say, I prevailed against him; mine adversaries shall exult when I shall be moved.

Thou didst recount my wanderings: set thou my tears in thy bottle: are they not in thy book? Then will mine enemies turn back in the day I shall call: this I knew, that God is for me. In God I will praise the word: in Jehovah I will praise the word.

They prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bent down: they dug a pit before me, they fell into the midst of it. Silence.

Who didst cause us to see great straits and evils; thou wilt turn back, thou wilt preserve us alive, and from the depths of the earth thou wilt turn back, thou wilt bring us up. Thou wilt increase my greatness, thou wilt surround me, thou wilt comfort me. Also I will praise thee with the instrument of the harp; thy truth, O God, I will play on the harp, to thee, O Thou, Holy One of Israel. read more.
My lips shall rejoice when I shall play on the harp to thee, and my soul which thou redeemedst.

And Samuel will announce to him all the words, and he hid not from him. And he will say, It is Jehovah: the good in his eyes he will do.

And Hezekiah will say to Isaiah, Good the word of Jehovah which thou spakest And he will say, Shall not peace and truth be in my days?

And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.

I was dumb, I will not open my mouth; for thou didst

If he shall slay me shall I not hope? only I will prove my ways to his face.

Who didst cause us to see great straits and evils; thou wilt turn back, thou wilt preserve us alive, and from the depths of the earth thou wilt turn back, thou wilt bring us up.

And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:

My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs:

And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:

And Joseph's lord will take him and put him into the house of the fortress, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he shall be there in the house of the fortress. And Jehovah will be with Joseph, and will extend to him kindness, and will give his grace in the eyes of the chief of the house of the fortress. And the chief of the house of the fortress will give into Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the house of the fortress; and all which was done there he was doing. read more.
The chief of the house of the fortress saw not all the things in his hand, because Jehovah was with him: and what he did Jehovah prospering.

He sent a man before them, Joseph, for a servant was he sold: They humbled his feet with the fetter: his soul came into iron: Even to the time his word came: the sayings of Jehovah purified him.

And now, behold, I, bound in the spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things going to happen to me in it; But that the Holy Spirit testifies in the city, saying that bonds and pressures await me. But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us, Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God. For reckon over him having endured such contradiction of the sinful against himself, lest being harassed, ye labor in your souls.

For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps: Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth: Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;

Thou wilt not cover thy face from me; thou wilt not turn away thy servant in anger: thou, wert my help; thou wilt not leave me and thou wilt not forsake me, my God saving me.

Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;

Turn back, O my soul, to thy rest; for Jehovah benefited to thee. For thou deliveredst my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from a fall. I will go about before Jehovah in the lands of the living.

For a nation came up from the north against her; it shall set her land for a desolation, and none shall be dwelling in her: from man and even to beast they moved, and they went In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God.

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the tempted.

And call upon me in the day of straits: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honor me.

I will call upon God, and Jehovah will save me: Evening and morning and noon I will meditate and make a noise, and he will hear my voice.

In all their straits not an adversary, and: a messenger of his face saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he will take them up and bear them all the days forever.

And there shall not a hair of your head perish.

I sought Jehovah and he answered me, and from all my fears he delivered me.

Many the evils of the just one, and Jehovah will deliver him from all of them.

God is in her midst, she shall not be moved: God will help her at the face of morning.

Jehovah of armies is with us, the God of Jacob a height for us. Silence.

And Nathan will go to his house. And Jehovah will strike the child which Uriah's wife bare to David and he will be sick. And David will seek God for the boy, and fast a fast; and he came and passed the night and lay upon the earth. And the old men of his house will rise to him to lift him up from the earth; and he would not, and he ate not bread with them. read more.
And it will be in the seventh day, and the child will die. And David's servants feared to announce to him that the child died: for they said, Behold, in the child being living we spake to him and he heard not to our voice, and how shall we say to him the child died, and do evil? And David will see that his servants are whispering, and David will perceive that the child died: and David will say to his servants, Did the child die? and they will say, He died. And David will rise from the earth and wash, and be anointed, and he will change his garments, and will go into the house of Jehovah and worship, and go to his house; and he will ask and they will set bread to him, and he will eat. And his servants will say to him, What this word which thou didst? for sake of the child living thou didst fast and weep, and when the child died thou didst rise and thou wilt eat bread. And he will say, The child yet living, and I fasted and wept; for I said, ho will know Jehovah will compassionate me, and the child live? And now he died, wherefore thus do I fast? shall I be able to yet turn him back? I go to him, and he will not turn back to me.

For thou didst keep the word of my patience, and I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, about to come upon the whole habitable globe, to try them dwelling upon the earth.

I will go into thine house with 'burnt-offerings: I will repay to thee my vows, Which my lips opened and my month spake in straits to me. I will bring up to thee burnt-offerings of marrows with incense of rams; I will do oxen with he goats. Silence.

Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time;

And it will be in my hearing these words, I sat down, and I shall weep and mourn days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens,

For he will hide me in the booth in the day of evil: he will cover me with the covering of his tent; he will lift me up upon a rock. And now he will lift up my head over mine enemies round about me: and I will sacrifice in his tent sacrifices of rejoicing; I will sing and I will play on the harp to Jehovah.

For he said to God, I was lifted up, I will pervert no more. Besides I shall see thou wilt teach it to me: if I did iniquity, I will not add.

He watched all his bones: one of them was not broken.

Take a pattern of affliction, my brethren, and of longsuffering, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.

I will not leave you orphans; I come to you.

Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted.

They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing. He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.

To call the year of acceptance to Jehovah, and the day of vengeance to our God; to comfort all those mourning; To set to those mourning in Zion, to give to them adorning instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the vestment of praise for the spirit of faintness; and it shall be called to them, The mighty trees of justice of the planting of Jehovah, to be honored.

But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy. If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.

But that the Holy Spirit testifies in the city, saying that bonds and pressures await me. But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.

I knew, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are justice, and in truth thou didst humble me.

For whom Jehovah shall love he will rebuke, as a father the son he will delight in.

And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.

For whom the Lord loves he corrects, and he chastises every son which he receives. If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?

For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.

He will not contend forever; he will not keep forever.

In a little moment I forsook thee; and with great mercies I will gather thee. In the outpouring of anger I hid a moment my face from thee; and in eternal mercy I compassionated thee, said Jehovah redeeming thee.

Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy.

By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:

For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;

But that the Holy Spirit testifies in the city, saying that bonds and pressures await me.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us.

Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name.

But all these will they do to you for my name, for they know not him having sent me.

Expulsions, sufferings, which were to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what expulsions I endured: and the Lord delivered me from all. And all wishing to live devotedly in Christ Jesus shall be driven out.

These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world shall ye have pressure; but take courage; I have conquered the world.

And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.

Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:

Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.