Biblical Theme
Suffering
The experience of pain and hardship in a fallen world. Scripture teaches that God uses suffering to refine faith, produce character, and conform us to the image of Christ.
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Key Verses
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.All things work together
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;Count it all joy
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;Light affliction
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:Fiery trial
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;Tribulation produces