But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

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

For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

… rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out …

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

That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

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

How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

… and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

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.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

… the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands