8 Bible Verses about Temporary Affliction Of Saints

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory:

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

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, tho' now for a little while (if need be) ye are in heaviness thro' manifold temptations.

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

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

Therefore I suffer all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is through Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

And I will most gladly 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 time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.