8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

"Indeed, does anyone say to God, 'I have endured [chastisement]; I will not act corruptly [again];

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

Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for [death is] the end of every person, and the living should take [it] to his heart.

And I will bring the [remaining] third into the fire, and I will refine them like [one] refines silver, and I will test them like [one] tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'Yahweh [is] my God.'"

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

Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

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