8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

And I will bring the third part through 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 hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.