6 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,

beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one--I am talking like a madman--with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.