21 Bible Verses about Trials

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

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

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Surely it is meet 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 thy word.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

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

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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 hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: