6 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints, Examples Of

for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,

I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there, except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me. But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger, through my purity of life, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness, my holiness of spirit, my genuine love,read more.
the truth of my teaching, and the power of God; with the weapons of uprightness for the right hand and the left, in honor or dishonor, in praise or blame; considered an imposter, when I am true, obscure, when I am well known, at the point of death, yet here I am alive, punished, but not dead yet, pained, when I am always glad, poor, when I make many others rich, penniless, when really I own everything.

His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your eyes; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired men!'