Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Now I would have you know, brethren, that the thingswhich happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole prætorian guard, and to all the rest;

and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.