45 Bible verses about Trials

I know without a doubt that God’s ultimate purpose is for me to become more and more like Jesus. So, my main goal in life should be to learn and grow and be shaped to be more like Him. Everything, even the tough times and struggles, is designed to help me reach that goal.

First Peter 1:6-7¹ says, "In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed." It's a powerful reminder that the trials I face will actually strengthen my faith, letting me rest in knowing that God is real and He’s always faithful.

Consider it all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials,for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls.But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at his own face in a mirror,for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed in what he does.If anyone thinks he is religious, although he does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Consider it all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials,for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls.But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at his own face in a mirror,for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed in what he does.If anyone thinks he is religious, although he does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

Blessed is the person who endures testing, because when he is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

But he knows the way that I take; he tests me—I shall come out like gold.

And not only this, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces patient endurance,and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

in which you rejoice greatly, although now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,

You have tried my heart; you have examined me by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided that my mouth will not transgress.

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

to whom he also presented himself alive after he suffered, with many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking the things about the kingdom of God.

Because for this reason also I wrote, in order that I could know your proven character, whether you are obedient in everything.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.

For I, Yahweh your God, am grasping your right hand; it is I who say to you, “You must not fear; I myself, I will help you.

I am able to do all things by the one who strengthens me.

in which you rejoice greatly, although now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my innermost being and my mind.

casting all your cares on him, because he cares for you.

And not only this, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces patient endurance,and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

the one feeding you manna in the desert, food that your ancestors did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you so that he could do good to you in the future.

For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.You brought us into the net; you placed a heavy burden on our backs.You let men ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.

But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else.

Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,For they disciplined us for a few days according to what seemed appropriate to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we can have a share in his holiness.Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.Therefore strengthen your slackened hands and your weakened knees,and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.Take care that no one falls short of the grace of God; that no one growing up like a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;that no one be a sexually immoral or totally worldly person like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.For you know that also afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears.For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind,and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged that not another word be spoken to them.fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the refuge of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together with him so that we may also be glorified together with him.For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose,

Trust Yahweh with all your heart; do not lean toward your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten your paths.

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give up.

It is good for me that I was afflicted, so that I might learn your statutes.

A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace is for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts.

Then he said, “Naked I came out from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh’s name be blessed.”In all this, Job did not sin and did not charge God with wrongdoing.

if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith and saying, “Through many persecutions it is necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God.”

When my troubled thoughts were many within me, your consolations cheered my soul.

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, when it takes place to test you, as if something strange were happening to you.But to the degree that you share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that also at the revelation of his glory you may rejoice and be glad.

Because of this, take up the full armor of God, in order that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

And indeed, all those who want to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Out of my distress I called to Yah. Yah answered me, setting me in a broad place.Yahweh is for me; I do not fear. What can mere humans do to me?

Many are the distresses of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed for this,for indeed when we were with you we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, just as indeed it happened, and you know.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorch you.

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