Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah—

For to this you were called, because Messiah also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

But because you are partakers of Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

If you are insulted for the name of Messiah, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;