Bible Verses About Severity

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.

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

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

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:

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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

For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

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

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.

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.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

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

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

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

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

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

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

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

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

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