23 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints

Blessed are they who mourn; for they will be comforted.

who comforteth us in all our distress, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any distress by the comfort wherewith we are ourselves comforted by God;

But God, that comforteth those who are brought low, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

By your constancy secure your lives.

Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; persevere in prayer.

so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God, for your constancy and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions which ye endure;

But let endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing.

For what glory is it, if, when ye are beaten for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently [it is glory]; for this is acceptable with God.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Come to me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

And when the Lord saw her, he was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, Weep not.

Let not your heart be troubled. Have faith in God, and have faith in me.

yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead;

and ye have forgotten the exhortation, which reasoneth with you as with sons: "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him;

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.

Therefore let us also, being surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth easily beset us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us; looking to the author and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction by sinners against him, lest ye faint in your souls, and become weary.

For to this ye were called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps; who committed no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously;

who delivered us from such peril of death, and is delivering; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us,

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the preaching might be fully accomplished by me, and that all the gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the lions mouth.

For in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

But not a hair of your head will be lost.

Because thou hast kept my injunction of endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

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

Take, brethren, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, for an example of affliction, and of patience.

I will not leave you bereaved; I am coming to you.

Blessed are they who mourn; for they will be comforted.

but, in so far as ye share in Christs sufferings, rejoice; that also at the manifestation of his glory ye may rejoice with exceeding joy. If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.

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.

but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

for whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth; and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he, whom the father chasteneth not?

Truly, truly do I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a short time, if need be, made sorrowful by manifold trials,

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory;

save that the Holy Spirit witnesseth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

For I esteem the sufferings of the present time as of no account, when compared with the glory which is about to be revealed to us.

Then will they deliver you up to distress, and will kill you; and ye will be hated by all nations on account of my name.

But all these things will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.

persecutions, sufferings; what things came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that it is through many afflictions that we mast enter into the kingdom of God.

Behold, we count those happy who have endured. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; behold also the end of the Lord, that he is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.