Suffering & trials in the Bible

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.

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

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:

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

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

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

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.

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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,

And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

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

The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.