7 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Purpose Of

In all their distress, {there was no distress}, and the messenger of his {presence} saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all [the] days of old.

{I will return again} to my place until they acknowledge [their] guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.

Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word.

Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in [the] furnace of misery.

I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments [are] right, and [that] in faithfulness you afflicted me.

And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror. When he killed [some of] them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God.

For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},