Bible Verses About Afflicted Saints

The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness.

Good is Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.'

And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, `Be not weeping;'

and a hair out of your head shall not perish;

in your patience possess ye your souls.

After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, `Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

`And now, lo, I--bound in the Spirit--go on to Jerusalem, the things that shall befall me in it not knowing,

save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

and Paul answered, `What do ye--weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become--of all things an offscouring--till now.

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,