Romans 15:4
For the things which were formerly written, were written for our instruction, that we, through the patience and the comfort which the scriptures give, might have hope.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.
Romans 5:3-5
And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience,
Hebrews 6:17-19
Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath,
Hebrews 12:11-12
But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.
James 1:18
Of his own will, he begot us with the word of truth, in order that we might be, as it were, the first-fruits of his creatures.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, has, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, regenerated us for a living hope
1 Peter 2:2
as new-born babes, earnestly desire the pure spiritual milk, that you may grow by it,