8 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints

For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

Verily, verily I say to you, you shall weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

in which you rejoice, though now for a little while, since it is needful, you are in sorrow under various temptations;

But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.

choosing rather to suffer evil with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season;

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

For I consider the sufferings of the present time not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed for us.