1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;
Isaiah 28:21
For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.
Daniel 11:35
And some of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed.
1 Corinthians 3:13
the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.
1 Thessalonians 3:2-4
and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage you concerning your faith,
2 Timothy 3:12
And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
1 Peter 1:6-7
Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,
1 Peter 4:4
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you;
1 Peter 5:9
Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which is in the world.