8 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints

For the light affliction which is for a moment, works out for us more abundantly an eternal weight of glory,

I tell you most truly, that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall become joy.

In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials,

And may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a little while, himself make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish you.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time,

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

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

For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.