Bible Verses About Trials

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

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:

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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:

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

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.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

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.

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

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

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

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

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

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God.

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

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.

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

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

But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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

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

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.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

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

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

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;

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

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

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.