8 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints

For our momentary light affliction worketh for us a transcendently far more exceeding eternal weight of glory;

Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be very sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials:

But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered a little while, himself perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

choosing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God, than to have a temporary fruition of sin;

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

And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present moment are not worthy to be placed against the future glory that shall be revealed to us.