7 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Purpose Of

In all their affliction, he, was afflicted And the messenger of his presence saved them, In his love and in his pity, he, redeemed them, - And then lifted them up and carried them all the days of the age-past time.

I will depart, will return unto my place! till what time they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my face, - In their trouble, will they make for me diligent search.

Before I was afflicted, I myself was going astray, but, now, thy word, have I kept.

Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver, - I have tested thee, in a smelting-pot of affliction.

I know, O Yahweh, that righteous are thy regulations, and, in faithfulness, didst thou afflict me.

So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror! If he slew of them, then they sought him, Yea they turned, and did earnestly seek GOD;

For, the momentary lightness of thee tribulation, in a manner yet more and more excelling, is working out for us, an age-abiding weight of glory, -