Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial

But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn.

If I have erred, teach thou me: if I have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.

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.

He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.

For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile.

Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?

Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

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

¶ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

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.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no more upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of Jacob, to the mighty God.

My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

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.