6 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers

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

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.