Reference: Afflictions
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common to all (Job 5:7; 14:1; Ps 34:19); are for the good of men (Jas 1:2-3,12; 2Co 12:7) and the glory of God (2Co 12:7-10; 1Pe 4:14), and are to be borne with patience by the Lord's people (Ps 94:12; Pr 3:12). They are all directed by God (La 3:33), and will result in the everlasting good of his people (2Co 4:16-18) in Christ Jesus (Ro 8:35-39).
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but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but LORD delivers him out of them all.
Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O LORD, and teach out of thy law,
For whom LORD loves he reproves, {and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT)}.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter. read more. But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor heavenly agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day. For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness, read more. while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.
And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted. I besought the Lord thrice about this, that it might depart from me. read more. And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me. Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.