8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

Behold, happy is the man whom +God correcteth; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.

For hath he said unto God, I bear chastisement, I will not offend;

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

For our momentary and light affliction works for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory;

But no chastening at the time seems to be matter of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.

And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.