'Afflictions' in the Bible

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For yourselves know that we are set for this;

on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.