5 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers

to this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:

from imprisonments, from tumults, from labours, from watchings, from penury.

so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.

and lest I should be exalted above measure by the extraordinary revelations I have had, I was afflicted in my person, so that the messenger of satan insulted me; concerning which,

none of you might be stagger'd by these persecutions: for you know that we are destin'd to suffer.