Afflictions and Adversities of Saints

27 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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Acts 20:23 I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.
Acts 24:1 Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.
Romans 8:18 I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.
2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

Psalm 126:5–6 Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. …
Isaiah 61:2–3 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, …
Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
1 Peter 4:13–14 But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory. …

Deuteronomy 8:5 So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
Psalm 119:75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
Proverbs 3:12 for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
Hebrews 12:6–7 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” …
Revelation 3:19 Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

Job 5:17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
James 5:11 See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Matthew 24:9 Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
John 15:21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
2 Timothy 3:11–12 my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. …

Psalm 30:5 For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalm 103:9 He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
Isaiah 54:7–8 “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. …
John 16:20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
1 Peter 5:10 And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

John 16:33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
Acts 14:22 strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.