Afflictions and Adversities
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Afflictions and Adversities’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 457–480 of 862 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author…
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Hebrews 13:3 NT
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
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Hebrews 13:5 NT
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
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Hebrews 13:6 NT
So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
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James 1:27 NT
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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James 5:8 NT
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
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James 5:10 NT
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps, who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.” When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he…
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Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may…
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1 Peter 5:7 NT
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
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“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
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Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the…
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Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
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Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood. Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and…
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You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
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It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you, and return to Yahweh your God and…
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Judges 2:21 OT
I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
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Judges 2:22 OT
that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
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“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house; then hear in heaven, and forgive the…
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“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house; then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of…
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“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
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if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Job 33:11 OT
He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’