8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth it unto his heart.

And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

and I have said to him, 'Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, 'These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;