21 Bible Verses about Trials

For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more].

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

And thou shall consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so LORD thy God chastens thee.

My son, despise not the chastening of LORD, nor be weary of his reproof. For whom LORD loves he reproves, {and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT)}.

And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?

But when we are judged by Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

My soul also is greatly troubled. And thou, O LORD, how long?

How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?

LORD, how long will thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

O LORD God of hosts, how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that it was necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations.

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

And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance,

I know thy works and tribulation and poverty (but thou are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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 hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted.

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.

As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings,

Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

And thou shall consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so LORD thy God chastens thee.

And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.

Thou brought us into the net. Thou laid a great burden upon our loins.

And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?

Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged.

Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.

And let us not be weary doing good, for in our own time we will reap, not desponding.

Therefore I ask that ye not become discouraged at my tribulations on your behalf, which is your glory.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the [heavenly] agent of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. And he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the glory that is going to be revealed for us.

And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for thy word has revived me.

Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Jesus therefore said to Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath. The cup that the Father has given me, shall I, no, not drink it?

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face praying, and saying, My Father, if it be possible, may this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I want, but as thou.

Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.

But having answered, Jesus said, Ye know not what ye are asking. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am going to drink, or to be immersed the immersion that I am immersed? They say to him, We are able.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of thy waterfalls. All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.

Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul.

Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul,

And though LORD give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet thy teachers shall not be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.