23 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we might be able to comfort those who are in all tribulation, by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

But God that comforteth the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus:

In your patience possess ye your souls.

rejoicing in hope; patient in affliction; persevering in prayer:

so that we ourselves make our boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and fidelity under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure:

But let patience have its work perfected, that ye may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

For what glory would there be, if committing faults, and being buffeted, ye suffered patiently? but if, when ye behave well, yet suffer, ye bear it patiently, this is graciously accepted of God.

These things have I spoken to you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.

Come to me, all who labour hard, and sustain heavy burdens, and I will give you relief. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

And when Jesus saw her, he was moved with compassion for her, and said unto her, Weep not.

LET not your hearts be troubled: trust in God, and trust in me.

for we ourselves, in ourselves have received the sentence of death, that we should have no confidence in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

And have you forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you, as children, "My son, count not lightly of the Lord's childlike correction, nor faint when under his rebuke:

And now behold I am going, bound by the Spirit, unto Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall there befal me: only this, that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and tribulation await thee. Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

But Paul replied, Why do ye thus??eeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us, earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls.

For hereunto have ye been called, because Christ also hath suffered for you, leaving you a pattern, that ye should follow his steps; who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he used no menaces; but referred himself to him who judgeth righteously:

Who from so imminent a prospect of death hath delivered us, and still delivers: in whom we trust also that he will yet deliver us:

but the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully discharged, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was snatched out of the lion's mouth.

for inasmuch as he hath himself suffered, having been tempted, he is able to succour those who are tempted.

Though a hair of your head shall in nowise perish.

Because thou hast keep the word of my patience, I also will preserve thee from the hour of temptation, which is coming upon the whole habitable globe to try the dwellers upon earth.

choosing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God, than to have a temporary fruition of sin;

My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.

I will not leave you orphans: I am coming to you.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

but as ye share in the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory also ye may hail him with exultations. If ye suffer reproach for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: by them indeed he is blasphemed, but by you he is glorified.

only this, that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and tribulation await thee. Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

But being judged, we are corrected by the Lord, that we might not be condemned with the world.

for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." If ye patiently endure correction, God carries himself towards you as his children: for who is the son whom the father doth not correct?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be very sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials:

For our momentary light affliction worketh for us a transcendently far more exceeding eternal weight of glory;

only this, that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and tribulation await thee.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present moment are not worthy to be placed against the future glory that shall be revealed to us.

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

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

the persecutions, the sufferings, which beset me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, yet out of them all the Lord delivered me. And all indeed who will live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

These things have I spoken to you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.

strengthening the souls of the brethren, exhorting them to abide firm in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must pass into the kingdom of heaven.

Behold, we esteem those blessed who patiently endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; for the Lord is full of bowels of mercy, and tenderly compassionate.