5 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers

To this very hour we go hungry, thirsty, and naked; we are beaten; we are homeless;

In floggings, in imprisonments, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings;

Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.

It was for this reason, and to prevent my thinking too highly of myself, that a thorn was sent to pierce my flesh--an instrument of Satan to discipline me--so that I should not think too highly of myself.

So that none of you should be shaken by the troubles through which you are passing. You yourselves know that we are destined to meet with such things.