Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Then Yeshua said to them, "Don't be afraid! Go and tell my brothers to go to the Galil, and they will see me there."

for they had all seen him and were terrified. However, he spoke to them. "Courage," he said, "it is I. Stop being afraid!"

At three, he uttered a loud cry, "Elohi! Elohi! L'mah sh'vaktani?" (which means, "My God! My God! Why have you deserted me?")

"How blessed are you who are hungry! for you will be filled. "How blessed are you who are crying now! for you will laugh.

"How blessed you are whenever people hate you and ostracize you and insult you and denounce you as a criminal on account of the Son of Man.

Be glad when that happens; yes, dance for joy! because in heaven your reward is great. For that is just how their fathers treated the prophets.

When the Lord saw her, he felt com passion for her and said to her, "Don't cry."

Aren’t sparrows sold for next to nothing, five for two assarions? And not one of them has been forgotten by God.

Why, every hair on your head has been counted! Don’t be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows.

Then Yeshua told his talmidim a parable, in order to impress on them that they must always keep praying and not lose heart.

But not a hair of your head will be lost.

“Don’t let yourselves be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me.

and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever.

I will not leave you orphans — I am coming to you.

“What I am leaving with you is shalom — I am giving you my shalom. I don’t give the way the world gives. Don’t let yourselves be upset or frightened.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first.

Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours too.

Yes, it’s true. I tell you that you will sob and mourn, and the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

So you do indeed feel grief now, but I am going to see you again. Then your hearts will be full of joy, and no one will take your joy away from you.

“I have said these things to you so that, united with me, you may have shalom. In the world, you have tsuris. But be brave! I have conquered the world!”

So Kefa was being held under watch in prison, but intense prayer was being made to God on his behalf by the Messianic community.

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage! For just as you have borne a faithful witness to me in Yerushalayim, so now you must bear witness in Rome.”

But not only that, let us also boast in our troubles; because we know that trouble produces endurance,

endurance produces character, and character produces hope;

and if we are children, then we are also heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with the Messiah — provided we are suffering with him in order also to be glorified with him.