When christian folk get sick the comment is often made that they are suffering for Christ, or that they are carrying their cross.

Acts 5:40  And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

41  And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

(Rom 8:17 KJV)  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint‑heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

                        {   4841. sumpascho, soom‑pas'‑kho; from G4862 and G3958 (includ. its alt.); to experience pain jointly or of the same kind (spec. persecution; to "sympathize"):‑‑suffer with. }

(1 Cor 4:12 KJV)  And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:    430. anechomai, an‑ekh'‑om‑ahee; mid. from G303 and G2192; to hold oneself up against, i.e. (fig.) put up with:‑‑bear with endure, forbear, suffer

Phil 1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you

in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and

confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which

happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the

gospel;

1:29  For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer* for his sake;                                                      *  3958. pascho, pas'‑kho; includ. the forms (patho, path'‑o) and  (pentho, pen'‑tho), used only in certain tenses for it; appar. a prim. verb; to experience a sensation or impression (usually painful):‑‑feel, passion, suffer, vex.

I Tim. 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. (3115) mak-roth-oo-mee’-ah; from the same as (3116) longanimity, i.e. (objective) forbearance or (subjective) fortitude: — longsuffering, patience.

(3116) mak-roth-oo-moce’; adverb of a compound of (3117) and (2372) ; with long (enduring)temper, i.e. leniently: — patiently.