2 Corinthians 6:4

Afflictions Of God's Servants

³ I am giving no one a cause of stumbling in order that my ministry may not be discredited; ⁴ but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses, ⁵ by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;

All Things

Let Us

Minister of God

Servant of God

Servants of God

No

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

2 Corinthians 3:6

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

2 Corinthians 4:8

On every side I am hard pressed, yet not hemmed in; perplexed, but not in despair;

2 Corinthians 12:10

Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:12

In truth the signs of the true apostle were wrought among you in all patience by signs and marvels and powers.

Luke 21:19

"In your patience you shall purchase your souls.

Acts 2:22

"Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God, through mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, as you yourselves know;

Acts 9:16

"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."

Acts 20:23-24

except that in city after city the Holy Spirit is warning me that bonds and afflictions are awaiting me.

Acts 20:34

"You yourselves know how these hands of mine provided for my needs, and those of my companions.

Romans 5:3-4

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

Romans 5:8

But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:35-36

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 14:18

Those who are slaving for Christ devotedly in these ways, are well pleasing to God and highly commended by man.

Romans 16:10

Salute Apellas, tested and tried in Christ, and the household of Aristobulus,

1 Corinthians 4:1

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

1 Corinthians 4:11-12

Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

1 Corinthians 9:11

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

2 Corinthians 2:17

I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

2 Corinthians 4:2

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

2 Corinthians 7:11

Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

2 Corinthians 11:9

Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness.

Philippians 4:11-12

Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

Colossians 1:11

that you may be strengthened in every kind of strength by the might of his glory for every kind of patience and fortitude with good cheer.

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

1 Thessalonians 2:3-11

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

1 Thessalonians 3:2-3

I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.

1 Thessalonians 3:7

I have been comforted, my brothers, in regard to you, in spite of all my distress and affliction over your faith.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

1 Timothy 2:15

Notwithstanding she will be saved by the Child-bearing; (so will they all), if they live in faith and love and holiness, with self-restraint.

1 Timothy 4:6

As you lay all these things before the brothers, you will be a noble minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing yourself in the precepts of the faith and that noble teaching which you have followed.

1 Timothy 6:11

But you, O servant of God, flee from these things, and run after integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, gentleness.

2 Timothy 1:8

Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord, nor for me, his prisoner. Nay, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

2 Timothy 2:24

The Lord's slave must not quarrel, but must be kind to all men; a skilful teacher, patient of wrong.

2 Timothy 3:10-12

But you, Timothy, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aims, my faith, patience, love, endurance,

2 Timothy 4:5

But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

Hebrews 12:1

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

James 5:7-10

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.