6 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints, Examples Of

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

And now behold, I go, bound in my spirit, to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will befall me there; save that the Holy Spirit witnesseth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. But I count life of no value to me, so that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

Then answered Paul, What mean ye that ye weep, and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

but as Gods ministers recommending ourselves in all things, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,read more.
in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, through honor and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true; as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.