Bible Verses About Afflictions: Often arise from the profession of the gospel

Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,