21 Bible Verses about Trials

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

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

But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

For hath any said unto 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 shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee.

My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof: For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

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

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come 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 rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they art not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath 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, Jehovah is my God.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast 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 by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.

So I spake unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

Thou broughtest us into the net; Thou layedst a sore burden upon our loins.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

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

This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me.

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

Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full cup are drained by them.

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

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