Bible Verses About Afflicted Saints

I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: until he judge my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice.

The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not.

But a hair of your head shall not perish.

In your patience you shall possess your souls.

Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee.

Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me.

I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have overcome the world.

And now, behold, being bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem: not knowing the things which shall befall me there:

Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem.

But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Then Paul answered and said: What do you mean, weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound.

But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us,

But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses,

In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,