8 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints

For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison,

I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world will be happy; you will grieve, but your grief will change to happiness.

Rejoice over this, although just now perhaps distressed by various trials;

And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,

For that reason I am ready to submit to anything for the sake of those whom God has chosen, so that they too may gain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.

And I will be glad to spend all I have and all I am for your sake. Are you going to love me the less for loving you so intensely?

For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us.