6 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints, Examples Of

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

And now, behold, bound in the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. But I do not consider my life of any account nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, distresses, in beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, sleeplessness, hunger, in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,read more.
in truthful speech, and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through glory and dishonor, evil report and good report; true, yet regarded as impostors; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'