5 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers

To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,

by lashes, by imprisonment; mobbed, toiling, sleepless, starving;

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;

to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well;