6 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints, Examples Of

because he preferred to suffer hardships with the people of God than to have the passing enjoyment that results from sin,

And I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, because I am impelled by the Spirit to do so, though I am not aware what will befall me there, except that in town after town the Holy Spirit emphatically assures me that imprisonment and sufferings are awaiting me. But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.

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

When we are slandered by them, we try to conciliate them. To this very hour we have been made the filth of the world, the scum of the universe!

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; in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger; through my personal purity, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness; through the Holy Spirit, my genuine love,read more.
my message of truth, and the power of God; with the weapons of right-doing in my right hand and my left; in honor or dishonor, in slander or praise; considered a deceiver and yet true, obscure and yet well-known, on the point of dying and yet I go on living, punished and yet not put to death, sad but always glad, poor but making many people rich, penniless but really possessing everything.

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