Bible Verses About Trials
Scriptures sustaining faith through difficult seasons.
Difficult seasons are often the forge where our faith is refined and made pure. What emerges from the heat is not a weaker spirit, but a trust that has been tested and found to rest on solid ground. You can count it all joy because God is using these challenges to produce an eternal endurance within you. Lean on His strength as He completes the good work He has started in your life.
Key Passages
"Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:"
"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."
"And he said unto me,My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
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"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;"
"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;"
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;"
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all."
"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."
"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:"
"But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."
"But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you."
"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee."
"It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes."
"But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."
"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"
"For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;"
"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."
"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
"For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted."
"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."
"But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;"
"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."
"Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy."
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
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