6 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers

So I spoke to the people in the morning: and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed to it.