2 Corinthians 6:4

Afflictions Of God's Servants

³ [We are] giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found [with it], ⁴ but commending ourselves as servants of God in every [way], in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties, ⁵ in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry,

All Things

Let Us

Minister of God

Servant of God

Servants of God

No

1 Corinthians 3:5

Therefore, what is Apollos and what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who also makes us adequate [as] servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:8

We are afflicted in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

2 Corinthians 12:10

Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:12

Indeed, the signs of an apostle have been done among you with all patient endurance, both signs and wonders and deeds of power.

Isaiah 61:6

But you shall be called the priests of Yahweh, {you will be called} servers of our God. You shall eat [the] wealth of [the] nations, and you shall boast in their riches.

Joel 1:9

The offering and libation are withheld from the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh.

Joel 2:17

Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among [the] nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where [is] their God?'"

Luke 21:19

By your patient endurance you will gain your lives.

Acts 2:22

"Israelite men, listen to these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, just as [you] yourselves know--

Acts 9:16

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

Acts 20:23-24

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town [after town], saying that bonds and persecutions await me.

Acts 20:34

You yourselves know that these hands served [to meet] my needs and [the needs of] those who were with me.

Romans 5:3-4

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

Romans 5:8

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:35-36

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?

Romans 14:18

For the one who serves Christ in this [way] [is] well-pleasing to God and approved by people.

Romans 16:10

Greet Apelles, who [is] approved in Christ. Greet those of the [household] of Aristobulus.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Thus let a person consider us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,

1 Corinthians 9:11

If we have sown spiritual [things] among you, [is it too] great [a thing] if we reap material [things] from you?

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},

2 Corinthians 7:11

For behold how much diligence this very [thing], being grieved according to [the will of] God, has brought about in you: what defense [of yourselves], what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! In everything you have demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

2 Corinthians 11:9

And [when I] was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep [myself from being a burden].

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.

2 Corinthians 11:27

with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.

Philippians 4:11-12

Not that I speak from need, for I have learned to be content in whatever [circumstances] I am.

Colossians 1:11

enabled with all power, according to his glorious might, for all steadfastness and patience with joy,

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church,

1 Thessalonians 2:3-11

For our exhortation [is] not from error or from impurity or with deceit,

1 Thessalonians 3:2-3

and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, in order to strengthen and to encourage you about your faith,

1 Thessalonians 3:7

because of this, brothers, we have been comforted because of you in all our distress and affliction through your faith,

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, console the discouraged, help the sick, be patient toward all [people].

1 Timothy 2:15

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

1 Timothy 4:6

[By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.

1 Timothy 6:11

But you, O man of God, flee from these [things], and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.

2 Timothy 1:8

Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor me his prisoner, but suffer along with [me] for the gospel, according to the power of God,

2 Timothy 2:24

And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,

2 Timothy 3:10-12

But you have faithfully followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

2 Timothy 4:5

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

James 5:7-10

Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the soil, being patient concerning it until it receives the early and late rains.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother and co-sharer in the affliction and kingdom and steadfastness in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to put to the test those who live on the earth.