8 Bible Verses about Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise

Blessed is the person whom God corrects. Do not despise discipline from the Almighty.

Job, have you confessed your sins to God and promised not to sin again?

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. That is the end for all men and the living takes it to heart.

I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: 'It is my people!' They will say: 'Jehovah is my God!'

Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.

Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous. In fact it seems grievous! Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained.

I said to him: Sir, 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 blood of the Lamb.