Bible Verses About Afflictions

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

The LORD’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.

I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

Thus says the LORD: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

and said, “Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Yeshua, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Messiah Yeshua will suffer persecution.

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.