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

And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

Before I am afflicted, I--I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee,