Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

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

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

Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.

I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

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

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob— to the Mighty God.

My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.