8 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory;

Truly, truly do I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a short time, if need be, made sorrowful by manifold trials,

But the God of all grace, who called you to his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, will, after ye have suffered a while, himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

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

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more I love you, the less I am loved.

For I esteem the sufferings of the present time as of no account, when compared with the glory which is about to be revealed to us.