33 Bible Verses about Afflictions

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves. Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake ??it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

All that is but the beginning of the trouble. Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name. And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another. read more.
Many false prophets will rise and mislead many. And in most of you love will grow cold by the increase of iniquity; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison, for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.

If I am in distress, it is in the interests of your comfort and salvation; if I am comforted, it is in the interests of your comfort, which is effective as it nerves you to endure the same sufferings as I suffer myself.

Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

And have you forgotten the word of appeal that reasons with you as sons? ??My son, never make light of the Lord's discipline, never faint under his reproofs;

As it is, we are chastened when we are judged by him, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

he rescued me from so terrible a death, he rescues still, and I rely upon him for the hope that he will continue to rescue me.

My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;

To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,

by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving;

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;

To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,

by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving;

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

And have you forgotten the word of appeal that reasons with you as sons? ??My son, never make light of the Lord's discipline, never faint under his reproofs;

Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

Hence I never lose heart; though my outward man decays, my inner man is renewed day after day.

Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.

So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

As it is, we are chastened when we are judged by him, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

for the Lord disciplines the man he loves, and scourges every son he receives. It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father?

I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord? See here, the Lord's hand will fall on you, and you will be blind, unable for a time to see the sun." In a moment a dark mist fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to take him by the hand.

Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.

They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.

my persecutions, my sufferings ??all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me. Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

rejoice on that day and leap for joy! rich is your reward in heaven for their fathers did the very same to the prophets.

grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be.

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

had many lashes inflicted on them and put them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safe.

But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing to God, while the prisoners listened,

"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

See, we call the stedfast happy; you have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen that the Lord is very compassionate and pitiful.

to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well;

Then one of the Presbyters addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clad in white robes? where have they come from?" I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you. You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed.

he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more ??no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."

Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you. You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed.

for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.

Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe ??believe in God and also in me. In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you?

He said to them, "What is all this you are debating on your walk?" They stopped, looking downcast,

As he would not be persuaded, we acquiesced, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."

had many lashes inflicted on them and put them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safe. On receiving so strict a charge, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks. But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing to God, while the prisoners listened,