8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty:

Surely it is fitting to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your 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 through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, They are my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.

And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they who came out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.