Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who 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 created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For as the sufferings of Messiah abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Messiah.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

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

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Yeshua, that the life of Yeshua may also be revealed in our body.

Therefore we don’t faint, 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, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Messiah may rest on me.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the Torah of Messiah.

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Messiah;

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