8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

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

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe 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 should take this to heart.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

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

All discipline seems for the moment painful, not joyful; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

So I said to him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.