11 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

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

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.