7 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Purpose Of

In all their straits not an adversary, and: a messenger of his face saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he will take them up and bear them all the days forever.

I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.

Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.

Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.

I knew, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are justice, and in truth thou didst humble me.

And he will finish their days in vanity, and their years in terror. When he slew them and they sought him, and they turned back and sought for God.

For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;