Bible Verses About Affliction

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.