8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

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

For hath any said unto 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, Jehovah is my God.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.