2 Corinthians 6:5

Afflictions Of God's Servants

⁴ On the contrary, I am trying in everything to prove to people that I am a true servant of God: by my tremendous endurance in sorrows, distresses, difficulties; ⁵ in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger; ⁶ through my personal purity, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness; through the Holy Spirit, my genuine love,

In Labor

2 Corinthians 11:23-25

Are they ministers of Christ? So am I. I am talking like a man that has gone crazy -- as such I am superior! -- serving Him with labors greater by far, with far more imprisonments, with floggings vastly worse, and often at the point of death.

Acts 17:5

But this enraged the Jews; so they got together some wicked loafers about the public square, formed a mob, and set the town in an uproar.

Acts 19:23-34

Now just about that time a great commotion arose about The Way.

2 Corinthians 11:27

through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, through many a fasting season, poorly clad and exposed to cold.

Matthew 9:15

Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn, can they, as long as they have the bridegroom with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 14:3

For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him out of the way by putting him in prison, just to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

Matthew 14:10

And he sent and had John beheaded in prison.

Mark 13:34-37

It will be like a man who leaves his home and goes on a journey, after he has given orders to his slaves, to each his particular task, and has given orders to the watchman to keep watch.

Acts 5:18

they had the apostles arrested and put into the common jail.

Acts 12:4-5

He had him seized and put into prison, and turned him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, planning after the Passover to bring him out again to the people.

Acts 13:3

So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands upon them and let them go.

Acts 14:19

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the crowds by persuasion, and they stoned Paul, and dragged him outside the town, supposing he was dead.

Acts 14:23

They helped them select elders in each church, and after praying and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Acts 16:23-24

After flogging them severely, they put them into jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch on them.

Acts 18:12-17

While Gallio was governor of Greece, the Jews unanimously attacked Paul and one day brought him before the court,

Acts 20:31

So ever be on your guard and always remember that for three years, night and day, I never ceased warning you one by one, and that with tears.

Acts 21:27-35

As the seven days were drawing to a close, the Jews from Asia caught a glimpse of him in the temple and began to stir up all the crowd, and seized him,

Acts 22:23-24

While they were shouting and tossing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air,

Acts 23:10

Since the dispute kept growing hotter and hotter, the colonel became alarmed that Paul might be torn in pieces by them, and so ordered the army to march down and take him out of their hands and bring him back to the barracks.

Acts 23:35

he said, "I will carefully hear your case as soon as your accusers arrive." Then he ordered him to be kept in custody in Herod's palace.

Acts 24:27

But at the close of two whole years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and as he wanted to gratify the Jews, Felix left Paul still in prison.

Acts 26:10

That was what I did at Jerusalem; yes, I received authority from the high priests and shut behind the prison bars many of God's people. Yes, when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, and often in all the synagogues

Acts 26:29

Paul answered, "In brief or at length, I would to God that not only you but all my hearers today were what I am -- excepting these chains!"

Acts 28:16-17

When we did arrive at Rome, Paul was granted permission to live by himself -- excepting a soldier to guard him.

Acts 28:30

So Paul for two whole years lived in a rented house of his own; he continued to welcome everybody who came to see him;

1 Corinthians 4:11

To this very hour we have gone hungry, thirsty, poorly clad; we have been roughly knocked around; we have had no home.

1 Corinthians 7:5

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by God's unmerited favor I have become what I am, and His unmerited favor shown to me was not bestowed for nothing, for I have toiled more extensively than any of them, and yet it was not I but God's unmerited favor working with me.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10

For I do not want you to be uninformed about the sorrow that I suffered in Asia, because I was so crushed beyond any power to endure that I was in dire despair of life itself.

Ephesians 3:1

This is why I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of the heathen --

Philippians 1:13

in this way it has become well known throughout the Imperial Guard and to all the rest here that I am a prisoner in the service of Christ,

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You remember, brothers, our hard labor and toil. We kept up our habit of working night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you when we preached to you.

1 Timothy 4:10

To this end we are toiling and struggling, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers.

2 Timothy 1:8

So you must never be ashamed of me His prisoner, but suffer for the good news in fellowship with me and by the power of God.

2 Timothy 2:9

for the sake of which I am suffering hardships even to the extent of wearing chains as though I were a criminal. But God's message is not in chains.

2 Timothy 4:5

But you, on your part, must always keep your head cool, suffer hardship, do your work as a herald of the good news, and so fill your ministry to the brim.

Hebrews 11:36

Still others stood the test of taunts and tortures, and even chains and prisons.

Hebrews 13:17

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.

Hebrews 13:23

You must know that our brother Timothy has been released from prison. If he comes soon, he and I will see you together.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be so afraid of what you are to suffer. See! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison to be tested there and for ten days to suffer pressing troubles. Each one of you must prove to be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.