Bible Verses about “affliction”
The Bible contains 25 verses about affliction across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.”
“The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
“‹These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.›”
“[The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”
“And he said unto me, ‹My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.› Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
“Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”
“And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”
“He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.”
“And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
“¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.”
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;”
“Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”
“¶ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.”
“To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.”
“The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.”
“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.”
“LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:”