11 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints
Most Relevant Verses
For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.
For His anger lasts only a moment,
but His favor, a lifetime.
Weeping may spend the night,
but there is joy in the morning.
“I deserted you for a brief moment,
but I will take you back with great compassion.
In a surge of anger
I hid My face from you for a moment,
but I will have compassion on you
with everlasting love,”
says the Lord your Redeemer.
“I assure you: You will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.
You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials
Now the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little.
and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.
This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
