255 verses contain “afflict” (in the KJV: 207, in the BSB: 127) — showing 201–255
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And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
And will begin to make inquisition of them, what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled;
Regard not the wicked inventions of the heathen, but the desire of those that keep thy testimonies in afflictions.
So he called unto him all his officers, and all his nobles, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of the whole earth out of his own mouth.
And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things because thou hast not spared thy life for the affliction of our nation, but hast revenged our ruin, walking a straight way before our God. And all the people said; So be it, so be it.
Then my afflicted shouted for joy, and my weak ones cried aloud; but they were astonished: these lifted up their voices, but they were overthrown.
And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth.
Remember, O Lord, make thyself known in time of our affliction, and give me boldness, O King of the nations, and Lord of all power.
And ye shall aid them, that even the same day, being the thirteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, they may be avenged on them, who in the time of their affliction shall set upon them.
Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.
But these very grievously afflicted them, whom they had received with feastings, and were already made partakers of the same laws with them.
For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction.
In the day of thine affliction it shall be remembered; thy sins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm weather.
Again, some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction.
In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.
The affliction of an hour maketh a man forget pleasure: and in his end his deeds shall be discovered.
And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate me: and any revenge, but the revenge of enemies.
Shut up alms in thy storehouses: and it shall deliver thee from all affliction.
Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution, than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.
Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought.
In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.
For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother’s womb, that he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; and that he might build up also, and plant.
Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever.
Both they, and their children, and their wives; and their cattle; because afflictions increased sore upon them.
So was there a great affliction in Israel, the like whereof was not since the time that a prophet was not seen among them.
And fought against Bacchides, who was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore: for his counsel and travail was in vain.