6 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers
Most Relevant Verses
And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning {just as} I was commanded.
Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,
in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry,
Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.
even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.
[so that] no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For [you] yourselves know that we are appointed for this,