8 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

Truly, truly I tell you, you will be wailing and lamenting while the world is rejoicing; you will be sorrowful, but then your sorrow will be changed into joy.

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin,

All I endure is for the sake of the elect, to let them obtain their share of the salvation of Christ Jesus and also of eternal glory.

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.