7 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Purpose Of
Most Relevant Verses
In all their distress He is no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old.
I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'
Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.
I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.
And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble. If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,
for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --
