Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial: In convincing us of sin

And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

then He tells them their deeds and how arrogantly they have transgressed.

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

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.