Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial: In keeping us from again departing from God

For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done--I do not add?'

And it hath come to pass, in that day, The remnant of Israel, And the escaped of the house of Jacob, Do not add any more to lean on its smiter, And have leant on Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, in truth.

And they have borne their iniquity: as the iniquity of the inquirer, so is the iniquity of the prophet;

so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after Me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'