1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,
Isaiah 28:21
For Jehovah shall rise up as in Mount Perazim; He shall be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, so that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.
Daniel 11:35
And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and purge them, and to make white, to the time of the end. Because it is still for the appointed time.
1 Corinthians 3:13
each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.
1 Thessalonians 3:2-4
And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
2 Timothy 3:12
Yea, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
1 Peter 1:6-7
in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;
1 Peter 4:4
In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.
1 Peter 5:9
whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood.