Bible Verses About Afflictions: Often arise from the profession of the gospel

then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,