21 Bible Verses about Trials

For, the momentary lightness of thee tribulation, in a manner yet more and more excelling, is working out for us, an age-abiding weight of glory, -

Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;

But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.

For, unto GOD, hath one ever said - I have borne punishment, I will not be perverse;

Before I was afflicted, I myself was going astray, but, now, thy word, have I kept.

Thou must consider, then with thy heart, - that as a man chasteneth his son, Yahweh thy God, hath been chastening thee.

The, chastening of Yahweh, my son, do not reject, nor loathe his rebuke; For, whom Yahweh loveth, he correcteth, he causeth pain to the son in whom he delighteth.

And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, with you as with sons, doth reason: - My son! be not slighting the discipline of the Lord, neither be fainting, when by him, thou art reproved;

But, being brought under judgment, by the Lord, are we being disciplined, lest, with the world, we should be condemned.

I, as many as I tenderly love, I convict and put under discipline: be zealous, therefore, and repent.

Yea, my soul, is dismayed greatly, Thou, then, O Yahweh - how long?

How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou wholly forget me? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

My Lord! how long wilt thou look on? Bring back my soul out of their raging, from among lions, my solitary self.

How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou be angry utterly? Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire?

O Yahweh, God of hosts! How long hast thou been wroth with 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 taking courage, - I, have overcome the world.

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

And I at once said to him - My lord! thou, knowest! And he said unto me - These, are they who come 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 let us boast also in our tribulations; knowing that, our tribulation, worketh out endurance.

I know thy tribulation, and destitution, nevertheless, thou art, rich, and the profane speech from among them who affirm that they themselves are, Jews, and they are not, but a synagogue of Satan.

But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.

And I will bring the third into the fire, and will smelt them as one smelteth silver, and will try them, as one trieth gold, - It, will call upon my name, and, I, will answer it, and will say, My people, it is! and, it, will say, Yahweh, is my God!

For thou didst prove us, O God, Thou didst refine us, according to the refining of silver:

That I may turn my hand against thee, And smelt away, as with potash, thy dross, And remove all thine alloy;

Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver, - I have tested thee, in a smelting-pot of affliction.

Wherefore, lest I should be unduly lifted up, there was given to me a thorn o in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, that he might buffet me, - lest I should be unduly lifted up.

So I spake unto the people in the morning, and my wife died in the even, - and I did in the morning, as I had been commanded.

Until the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and are wanderers,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings,

Ministers of Christ, are they? As one deranged I am talking, I, above measure! - in toils, superabundantly, in prisons, superabundantly, in stripes, to excess, in deaths, oft, -

Thou must consider, then with thy heart, - that as a man chasteneth his son, Yahweh thy God, hath been chastening thee.

And she said unto them, Do not call me Naomi, - call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me:

For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:

Thou didst bring us into the hunter's net, Thou didst lay a load upon our loins;

And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, with you as with sons, doth reason: - My son! be not slighting the discipline of the Lord, neither be fainting, when by him, thou art reproved;

Wherefore, having this ministry, even as we received mercy, we faint not;

Wherefore we faint not, but, even if, our outer man, is decaying, nevertheless, our inner man , is renewing day by day.

And, in doing that which is honourable, let us not be fainthearted; for, in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not.

Wherefore I request, that there be no fainting in my tribulations in your behalf, the which is your glory; -

In all their affliction, he, was afflicted And the messenger of his presence saved them, In his love and in his pity, he, redeemed them, - And then lifted them up and carried them all the days of the age-past time.

For I reckon that unworthy are the sufferings of the present season to be compared with the glory about to be revealed towards us;

Then said Yahweh, I have, seen, the humiliation of my people, who are in Egypt, - and their outcry, have I heard, by reason of their task-masters, for I know their pains;

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

This, is my comfort in mine affliction, that, thy word, hath given me life.

Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.

Jesus, therefore, said unto Peter - Thrust the sword into its sheath: - The cup which the Father hath given me, shall I in anywise not drink it?

And, going forward a little, he fell upon his face, offering prayer, and saying - My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from me, - Nevertheless, not as, I, will, but as, thou, wilt.

Therefore must his people return thither, And, the waters of abundance, are drained by them;

But Jesus, answering, said - Ye know not what ye are asking: Are ye able to drink the cup, which, I, am about to drink; They say unto him - We are able.

Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.

Save me, O God, For waters have entered as far as the life;

Upon me, hath rested thine indignation, And, with all thy breakers, hast thou caused affliction. Selah.

Then, the waters, had whelmed us, the torrent, gone over our soul;

Though My Lord, should give you bread in short measure and water in scant allowance Yet will thy Teacher not hide himself any more, But thine eyes shall ever be looking on thy Teacher.