Bible Verses About Personal Trials

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

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.

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

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 we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me.

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.

For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

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

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.

When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;