22 Bible Verses about Afflicted Saints

"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be consoled!

He comforts me in all my trouble, so that I can comfort people who are in any trouble with the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted me by the coming of Titus,

It is by your endurance that you will win your souls.

Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.

As a result, we ourselves speak of you with pride in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in the face of all the persecutions and troubles you are having to endure.

and steadfastness must have full play, so that you may be fully and perfectly developed without any defects.

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

Come to me, all of you who toil and are burdened, and I will let you rest. Let my yoke be put upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble-minded, and your hearts will find rest, for the yoke I offer you is a kindly one, and the load I ask you to bear is light."

And when the Master saw her, he pitied her, and said to her, "Do not weep."

"Your minds must not be troubled; you must believe in God, and believe in me.

Why, I felt in my heart that the end must be death. That was to keep me from relying on myself instead of on God, who can even raise the dead.

and you have forgotten the challenge addressed to you as God's sons, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, Or give up when he corrects you.

I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there, except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me. But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered, fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.

That is the life to which you have been called, for Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow his footsteps. He committed no sin, and deceit was never on his lips. He was abused but he did not retort. He suffered but he did not threaten, but committed his case to him who judges justly.

So deadly was the peril from which he saved me, as he will save me again! It is on him that I have set my hope that he will save me again.

But the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, so that I might make a full presentation of the message and let all the heathen hear it. So I was saved from the jaws of the lion.

For because he has himself been tempted in what he has suffered he is able to help others who are in trial.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish!

Because you have kept in mind the message of what I endured, I also will keep you safe in the time of testing that is going to come upon the whole world, to test the inhabitants of the earth.

for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,

As an example, brothers, of ill-treatment patiently endured, take the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

I am not going to leave you friendless. I am coming back to you.

"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be consoled!

but be glad that you are in a measure sharing the sufferings of the Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may be triumphantly happy. If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.

except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me. But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

But since we do incur it, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

For it is those whom the Lord loves that he disciplines, And he chastises every son that he acknowledges." You must submit to it as discipline. God is dealing with you as his sons. For where is there a son whom his father does not discipline?

I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world will be happy; you will grieve, but your grief will change to happiness.

Rejoice over this, although just now perhaps distressed by various trials;

For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison,

except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me.

For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us.

Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

my persecutions, my sufferings??he things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the persecutions I endured; yet the Lord brought me safely out of them all. But everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

Why, we call those who showed such endurance happy! You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen what the Lord brought out of it, for the Lord is very kind and merciful.