7 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Purpose Of

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his face saved them: with his love and with his clemency he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of the age.

I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.

Before I was humbled, I went into error, but now I keep thy spoken word.

Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity and their years in tribulation. When he slew them, then they sought him, and they returned and enquired early after God.

For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us;