6 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers

So I spake unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.

that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.