1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,
Isaiah 28:21
For as at mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As at the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work -- strange is His work, And to do His deed -- strange is His deed.'
Daniel 11:35
And some of the teachers do stumble for refining by them, and for purifying, and for making white -- till the end of the time, for it is yet for a time appointed.
1 Corinthians 3:13
of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare it, because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.
1 Thessalonians 3:2-4
and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,
2 Timothy 3:12
and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,
1 Peter 1:6-7
in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,
1 Peter 4:4
in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,
1 Peter 5:9
whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.