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

And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.

¶ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger!

I will arise and will go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee.