Quotes About Trials

At times there is a crushing before a crowning.

Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21).

They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.

You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.

They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

You are the ones who have stood by Me in My trials.