Bible Verses About Afflicted Saints: Apostles

being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.