'Affliction' in the Bible
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
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