Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial: In purifying us

A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.

And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.

Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb:

And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.