Bible Verses About Afflicted Saints

I will beare the wrath of the Lord because I haue sinned against him, vntill he pleade my cause, and execute iudgement for me: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.

The Lord is good and as a strong hold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him.

Blessed are they that mourne: for they shall be comforted.

Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you.

Take my yoke on you, and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.

For my yoke is easie, and my burden light.

And when the Lord sawe her, he had compassion on her, and said vnto her, Weepe not.

Yet there shall not one heare of your heads perish.

By your patience possesse your soules.

And after that, Iesus founde him in the Temple, and said vnto him, Beholde, thou art made whole: sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto thee.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye beleeue in God, beleeue also in me.

I will not leaue you fatherles: but I will come to you.

These thinges haue I spoken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace: in the world ye shall haue affliction, but be of good comfort: I haue ouercome the world.

And nowe beholde, I goe bound in the Spirit vnto Hierusalem, and know not what things shall come vnto me there,

Saue that ye holy Ghost witnesseth in euery citie, saying, that bondes and afflictions abide me.

But I passe not at all, neither is my life deare vnto my selfe, so that I may fulfill my course with ioye, and the ministration which I haue receiued of the Lord Iesus, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.

Then Paul answered, and sayd, What doe ye weeping and breaking mine heart? For I am ready not to be bound onely, but also to die at Hierusalem for the Name of the Lord Iesus.

Reioycing in hope, pacient in tribulation, continuing in prayer,

We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time.

Which comforteth vs in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort wherewith we our selues are comforted of God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abounde in vs, so our consolation aboundeth through Christ.

Yea, we receiued the sentence of death in our selues, because we shoulde not trust in our selues, but in God, which rayseth the dead.

Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer vs: in whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliuer vs,

But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

In stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labours,