'Afflictions' in the Bible

and rescued him from all his afflictions and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

but commending ourselves as servants of God in every [way], in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties,

Therefore I ask [you] not to be discouraged at my afflictions on behalf of you, which are your glory.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church,

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

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,

sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.