21 Bible Verses about Trials

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

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

But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.

"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.

And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, [so] Yahweh your God [is] disciplining you.

Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof because whomever Yahweh will love, he will rebuke, as a father delights in his son.

And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons? "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or give up [when you] are corrected by him.

But [if we] are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.

As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. Be zealous, therefore, and repent!

My soul is also very terrified. But you, O Yahweh, how long?

How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages, my only [life] from [the] young lions.

How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people?

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."

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.

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

'I know your affliction and poverty (but you are rich), and the slander of those {who call themselves Jews} and are not, but [are] a synagogue of Satan.

But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.

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 you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.

And I will turn my hand against you; I will purify your dross like lye, and I will remove all [of] your tin.

Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in [the] furnace of misery.

even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.

And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning {just as} I was commanded.

Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,

in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry,

Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.

And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, [so] Yahweh your God [is] disciplining you.

And she said to them, "You should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai has {caused me to be very bitter}.

for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

"I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.

You brought us into the net; you placed a {heavy burden} on our backs.

And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons? "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or give up [when you] are corrected by him.

Because of this, [since we] have this ministry, just as we have been shown mercy, we do not lose heart,

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day.

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, [if we] do not give up.

Therefore I ask [you] not to be discouraged at my afflictions on behalf of you, which are your glory.

In all their distress, {there was no distress}, and the messenger of his {presence} saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all [the] days of old.

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.

This [is] my comfort in my misery: that your word preserves my life.

You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.

So Jesus said to Peter, "Put the sword into [its] sheath! The cup that the Father has given me--shall I not drink it?"

And going forward a little he fell down on his face, praying and saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you [will]."

Therefore his people turn there, and abundant waters are slurped up by them.

But Jesus answered [and] said, "You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

Deep [is] calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.

Save me, O God, because waters have come up to [my] neck.

Your wrath presses upon me, and you afflict [me with] all your waves. Selah

Then the waters would have flooded over us, [the] torrent would have passed over our soul.

And the Lord will give you [the] bread [of] distress and [the] water [of] oppression, but your teachers will not hide themselves any longer. And your eyes {shall see} your teachers.