7 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Purpose Of
Most Relevant Verses
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the [heavenly] agent of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. And he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou have afflicted me.
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. When he killed them, then they inquired after him, and they returned and sought God earnestly.
For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,