2 Corinthians 6:4

Afflictions Of God's Servants

³ giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed; ⁴ but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

All Things

Let Us

Minister of God

Servant of God

Servants of God

No

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

2 Corinthians 4:8

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

2 Corinthians 12:10

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:12

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.

Isaiah 61:6

But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men shall call you the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

Joel 1:9

The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

Joel 2:17

Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Luke 21:19

In your patience ye shall win your souls.

Acts 2:22

Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;

Acts 9:16

for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Acts 20:23-24

save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

Acts 20:34

Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

Romans 5:3-4

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

Romans 5:8

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:35-36

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 14:18

For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.

Romans 16:10

Salute Apelles the approved in Christ. Salute them that are of the household of Aristobulus.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

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

1 Corinthians 9:11

If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

2 Corinthians 7:11

For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

2 Corinthians 11:9

and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and'so will I keep myself .

2 Corinthians 11:23

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

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Philippians 4:11-12

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

Colossians 1:11

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

1 Thessalonians 2:3-11

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

1 Thessalonians 3:2-3

and sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

1 Thessalonians 3:7

for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

1 Timothy 2:15

but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

1 Timothy 4:6

If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now :

1 Timothy 6:11

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

2 Timothy 1:8

Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;

2 Timothy 2:24

And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

2 Timothy 3:10-12

But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

2 Timothy 4:5

But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

James 5:7-10

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and partaker with you in tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 3:10

Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.