'Afflictions' in the Bible

My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide My face from them so that they will become easy prey. Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’

And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do, even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to Him, ‘You must set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and clans.”

whatever prayer or petitionanyone from Your people Israel might have—each man knowing his own afflictionsand spreading out his hands toward this temple—

except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.

And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:by great endurance, by afflictions,by hardship, by difficulties,

I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overcome with joy in all our afflictions.

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches—about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.