Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial

But he knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold.

Surely it appertaineth vnto God to say, I haue pardoned, I will not destroy.

But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.

And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,

Then will he shewe them their worke and their sinnes, because they haue bene proude.

Then I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee, neither hid I mine iniquitie: for I thought, I will confesse against my selfe my wickednesse vnto the Lord, and thou forgauest the punishment of my sinne. Selah.

Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all.

He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. I Waited paciently for the Lord, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my cry.

For I know mine iniquities, and my sinne is euer before me.

Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.

For thou, O God, hast proued vs, thou hast tryed vs as siluer is tryed.

And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but nowe I keepe thy woorde.

It is good for me that I haue beene afflicted, that I may learne thy statutes.

As is the fining pot for siluer, and the fornace for golde, so the Lord trieth the heartes.

For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

A good name is better then a good oyntment, and the day of death, then the day that one is borne.

Then I will turne mine hand vpon thee, and burne out thy drosse, till it be pure, and take away all thy tinne.

And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward shalt thou be called a citie of righteousnes, and a faithfull citie.

And at that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Iaakob, stay no more vpon him that smote them, but shall stay vpon ye Lord, ye Holy one of Israel in trueth.

The remnant shall returne, euen the remnant of Iaakob vnto the mightie God.

With my soule haue I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within mee will I seeke thee in the morning: for seeing thy iudgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learne righteousnesse.

Behold, I haue fined thee, but not as siluer: I haue chosen thee in the fornace of affliction.

Thine habitation is in the middes of deceiuers: because of their deceit they refuse to know me, sayth the Lord.