8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.

For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more].

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I observe thy word.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. For that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

And I said to him, My lord, thou know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.