Lexicon :: Strong's G2347 - thlipsis

“But he has no root and is short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.

“For at that time there will be great distress,[fn] the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again.

“Immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

“But they have no root; they are short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately fall away.

“For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of creation until now and never will be again.

“But in those days, after that tribulation: The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light;

“When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

“I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

“and rescued him out of all his troubles. He gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over his whole household.

Now those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

strengthening the[fn] disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.”

“except that in every town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.

There will be affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;

And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin[fn] marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life,[fn] and I am trying to spare you.

He comforts us in all our affliction,[fn] so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia. We were completely overwhelmed ​— ​beyond our strength ​— ​so that we even despaired of life itself.

For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart ​— ​not to cause you pain, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you.

For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.

Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,

I am very frank with you; I have great pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our afflictions.

During a severe trial brought about by affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

It is not that there should be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality.[fn]

So, then, I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.

These preach out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;

Still, you did well by partnering with me in my hardship.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body, that is, the church.

and you yourselves became imitators of us and of the Lord when, in spite of severe persecution, you welcomed the message with joy from the Holy Spirit.

so that no one will be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and affliction, we were encouraged about you through your faith.

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches ​— ​about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions that you are enduring.

since it is just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

I, John, your brother and partner in the affliction, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

“I know your[fn] affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

“Look, I will throw her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction. Unless they repent of her[fn] works,

I said to him, “Sir,[fn] you know.”

Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.