8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

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

For has any said to God, I have taken away; I will not pervert?

Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have 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 try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,

Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

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