Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Regard it all as joy, my brothers, when you face various kinds of temptations;

for you know that the testing of your trust produces perseverance.

But let perseverance do its complete work; so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.

How blessed is the man who perseveres through temptation! For after he has passed the test, he will receive as his crown the Life which God has promised to those who love him.

The religious observance that God the Father considers pure and faultless is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being contaminated by the world.

You too, be patient; keep up your courage; for the Lord’s return is near.

As an example of suffering mistreatment and being patient, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of Adonai.

Even gold is tested for genuineness by fire. The purpose of these trials is so that your trust’s genuineness, which is far more valuable than perishable gold, will be judged worthy of praise, glory and honor at the revealing of Yeshua the Messiah.

Indeed, this is what you were called to; because the Messiah too suffered, on your behalf, leaving an example so that you should follow in his steps.

“He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found on his lips.”

When he was insulted, he didn’t retaliate with insults; when he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but handed them over to him who judges justly.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the stake, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness — by his wounds you were healed.

Dear friends, don’t regard as strange the fiery ordeal occurring among you to test you, as if something extraordinary were happening to you.

Rather, to the extent that you share the fellowship of the Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice; so that you will rejoice even more when his Sh’khinah is revealed.

If you are being insulted because you bear the name of the Messiah, how blessed you are! For the Spirit of the Sh’khinah, that is, the Spirit of God, is resting on you!

Throw all your anxieties upon him, because he cares about you.

Stand against him, firm in your trust, knowing that your brothers throughout the world are going through the same kinds of suffering.

“I know how you are suffering and how poor you are (though in fact you are rich!), and I know the insults of those who call themselves Jews but aren’t — on the contrary, they are a synagogue of the Adversary.

Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Adversary is going to have some of you thrown in prison, in order to put you to the test; and you will face an ordeal for ten days. Remain faithful, even to the point of death; and I will give you life as your crown.

Wake up, and strengthen what remains, before it dies too! For I have found what you are doing incomplete in the sight of my God.

Because you did obey my message about persevering, I will keep you from the time of trial coming upon the whole world to put the people living on earth to the test.

As for me, I rebuke and discipline everyone I love; so exert yourselves, and turn from your sins!

“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” Then he told me, “These are the people who have come out of the Great Persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb.

That is why they are before God’s throne. “Day and night they serve him in his Temple; and the One who sits on the throne will put his Sh’khinah upon them.

“They will never again be hungry, they will never again be thirsty, the sun will not beat down on them, nor will any burning heat.