'Sore' in the Bible

and their teaching will spread like a running sore. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men of that stamp.

But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him.

So the first angel went away and poured his bowl on to the earth; and it brought a bad and painful sore upon the men who had on them the mark of the Wild Beast and worshipped his statue.