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Bible Verses About Trials

Key Bible verses about trials include Job 9:23, Ezekiel 21:13 and Tobit 2:12. Each verse is quoted below; open one to see the passages it cross-references.

Key Verses About Trials (15)

1
Job 9:23

“If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.”

2
Ezekiel 21:13

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

3
Tobit 2:12

“Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.”

4
Tobit 3:21

“But this every one is sure of that worshippeth thee, that his life, if it be under trial, shall be crowned and if it be under tribulation, it shall be delivered: and if it be under correction, it shall be allowed to come to thy mercy.”

5
Judith 8:24

“But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring against the Lord,”

6
Wisdom 3:18

“And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.”

7
Wisdom 4:6

“For the children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.”

8
Sirach 4:19

“She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.”

9
Sirach 6:22

“She shall be to them as a mighty stone of trial, and they will cast her from them before it be long.”

10
Sirach 27:6

“The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.”

11
Sirach 27:8

“Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of men.”

12
2 Corinthians 8:2

“How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.”

13
Hebrews 11:36

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

14
1 Peter 1:7

“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:”

15
1 Peter 4:12

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

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