8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:

For he said to God, I was lifted up, I will pervert no more.

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

Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.

And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.

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

And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.

And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.