14 Bible Verses about Afflictions, In Christian Living

And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Then [when] affliction or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

[so that] no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For [you] yourselves know that we are appointed for this,

persecutions, [and] sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, [and] in Lystra, what sort of persecutions I endured, and the Lord delivered me from all [of them].

For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword? Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter." [No], but in all these [things] we prevail completely through the one who loved us.read more.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Many [are the] distresses of [the] righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

so that we ourselves boast in you in the churches of God about your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring, a proof of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, on behalf of which also you are suffering, since [it is] righteous in the sight of God to pay back those who are afflicting you with affliction,read more.
and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels,

And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."

because to you has been graciously granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on behalf of him,

But to the degree that you share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that also at the revelation of his glory you may rejoice [and] be glad. If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.