7 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Purpose Of
Most Relevant Verses
In all their distress He was distressed,
And the angel of His presence saved them,
In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them;
And He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
I will go away and return to My place [on high]
Until they acknowledge their offense and bear their guilt and seek My face;
In their distress they will earnestly seek Me, saying,
Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep and honor Your word [with loving obedience].
“Indeed, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested and chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are fair,
And that in faithfulness You have disciplined me.
Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.
When He killed [some of] them, then those remaining sought Him,
And they returned [to Him] and searched diligently for God [for a time].
For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor and an endless blessedness]!
