6 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers

So I spake unto the people in the morning, and my wife died in the even, - and I did in the morning, as I had been commanded.

Until the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and are wanderers,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings,

Ministers of Christ, are they? As one deranged I am talking, I, above measure! - in toils, superabundantly, in prisons, superabundantly, in stripes, to excess, in deaths, oft, -

Wherefore, lest I should be unduly lifted up, there was given to me a thorn o in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, that he might buffet me, - lest I should be unduly lifted up.

That, no one, might be shrinking back in these tribulations. For ye, yourselves, know, that, hereunto, are we appointed;