Suffering of the Saints - What?

The form that suffering takes is quite varied. For some suffering may be self-inflicted by choosing to give possessions away to serve others. They may be destitute or wear funny clothes because of love of the Gospel (Heb 11:37). Some receive verbal persecution by being publicly ridiculed (Heb 10:33) and mocked (Heb 11:36). Some experience physical affliction (Heb 10:33) and flogging (Heb 11:36) that does not kill . Many others are imprisoned for their faith (2 Ti 2:9, Heb 11:36) and have everything taken away from them (Phi 3:8) or are driven out of their homeland (1 Th 2:15). Finally, many suffer the ultimate persecution, death, being stoned, sawn in two, and killed with the sword (Heb 11:37).

Verses:

• Heb_11:36-37 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated--
• Heb_10:33 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
• 2Ti_2:9 [the gospel] for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
• Phi_3:8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish...
• 1Th_2:15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind