21 Bible Verses about Trials

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

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

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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.

And you have known with your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Jehovah your God chastens you.

My son, do not despise the chastening of Jehovah; nor be weary with His correction; for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

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

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

My soul also is exceedingly troubled; but You, O Jehovah, how long?

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

O Jehovah, how long will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my only one from the lions.

How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people?

I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.

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

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.

And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,

I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich), and I know the blasphemy of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

But He knows the way that I take; when He has 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 answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

For You have proved us, O God; You have tested us, as silver is refined.

And I will turn back My hand on you, and purge away your dross as with lye, and take away all your alloy.

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

and by the surpassing revelations, lest I be made haughty, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be made haughty.

So I spoke to the people in the morning. And in the evening my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

And you have known with your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Jehovah your God chastens you.

And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara. For the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.

You have brought us into the net; You have laid affliction on our loins.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

Therefore since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not faint.

For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

But we should not lose heart in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

For this reason I desire that you 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 bore 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 coming glory to be revealed in us.

And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.

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

This is my comfort in my affliction; for Your Word has given me life.

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Then Jesus said to Peter, Put up your sword into the sheath. The cup which My Father has 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 is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.

Therefore His people return here, and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

But Jesus answered and said, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said to Him, We are able.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and Your billows have gone over me.

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! for the waters have come in on my soul.

Your wrath lies hard on me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

then the waters would have flowed over us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

And Jehovah gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction; yet your teachers shall not be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers.