17 Bible Verses about Adversity

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James 1:2-4

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations. Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance. But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Therefore we faint not; but if indeed our external man perishes, yet our internal man is renewed day by day. For the light burden of our affliction, which is evanescent, is working out for us an eternal weight of glory according to hyperbole unto hyperbole; we not looking at the things which are visible, but the things which are invisible; for the visible things are temporary, but the invisible things are eternal.

James 1:12-15

Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love. Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one: but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed.read more.
Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death.

1 Peter 4:12-13

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, coming upon you unto your testing: as some strange thing happening to you: but as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad.

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