6 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints, Examples Of

ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin,

Now here I go to Jerusalem under the binding force of the Spirit. What will befall me there, I do not know. Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me. But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities, by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving; with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love,read more.
true words, the power of God; with the weapons of integrity for attack or for defence, amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest, 'unknown' but well-known, dying but here I am alive, chastened but not killed, grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.

The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I don't deserve to be called your son any more.'