6 Bible Verses about Afflictions Of Ministers
Most Relevant Verses
And I speak unto the people in the morning, and my wife dieth in the evening, and I do in the morning as I have been commanded.
unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,
in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;
and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.
that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,