23 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints

Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled.

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

But the God who comforts the dejected comforted me by the arrival of Titus.

Hold out stedfast and you win your souls.

let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.

only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.

Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed; my yoke is kindly and my burden light."

And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe ??believe in God and also in me.

in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead;

And have you forgotten the word of appeal that reasons with you as sons? ??My son, never make light of the Lord's discipline, never faint under his reproofs;

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."

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily, our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.

It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps. He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips; he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly;

he rescued me from so terrible a death, he rescues still, and I rely upon him for the hope that he will continue to rescue me.

But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion.

It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

but not a hair of your head will perish.

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

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

As an example of fortitude and endurance, brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

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

Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled.

You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed. If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

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.

As it is, we are chastened when we are judged by him, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

for the Lord disciplines the man he loves, and scourges every son he receives. It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father?

Truly, truly I tell you, you will be wailing and lamenting while the world is rejoicing; you will be sorrowful, but then your sorrow will be changed into joy.

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me.

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.

They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.

my persecutions, my sufferings ??all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me. Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

See, we call the stedfast happy; you have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen that the Lord is very compassionate and pitiful.