Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial

Yet he knows the way I take; when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.

"For has anyone said to God, 'I have been chastised without having offended;

teach me what I have failed to see; and if I have done wrong, I will do it no more'?

if, then, they are bound in chains, held in oppressive cords,

he shows them the results of their doings, the crimes caused by their pride.

When I acknowledged my sin to you, when I stopped concealing my guilt, and said, "I will confess my offenses to ADONAI"; then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)

The righteous person suffers many evils, but ADONAI rescues him out of them all.

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

For the leader. A psalm of David: I waited patiently for ADONAI, till he turned toward me and heard my cry.

For I know my crimes, my sin confronts me all the time.

True, I was born guilty, was a sinner from the moment my mother conceived me.

For you, God, have tested us, refined us as silver is refined.

When he brought death among them, they would seek him; they would repent and seek God eagerly,

Before I was humbled, I used to go astray; but now I observe your word.

It is for my good that I have been humbled; it was so that I would learn your laws.

The crucible [tests] silver, and the furnace [tests] gold, but the one who tests hearts is ADONAI.

Better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for all are destined to be mourned; the living should lay this to heart.

Grief is better than laughter, for sadness can improve a person.

But I will also turn my hand against you! I will cleanse your impurities as with lye and remove all your alloyed base metal.

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

On that day the remnant of Isra'el, those of the house of Ya'akov who escaped, will no longer rely on the man who struck them down, but will truly rely on ADONAI, the Holy One of Isra'el.

A remnant will return, the remnant of Ya'akov, to the mighty God.

My soul desires you at night, my spirit in me seeks you at dawn; for when your judgments are here on earth, the people in the world learn what righteousness is.

"Look, I have refined you, but not [as severely] as silver; [rather] I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

"You inhabit a world of deceit; deceitfully they refuse to know me," says ADONAI.