Trials & Testing
The theme of trials in the Bible: being tested, enduring and the maturing of character. Chapters on patience and faithfulness from Job to the letters.
In the Bible, a trial is not only a painful process but also a setting in which the heart and one's trust are revealed. The chapters below treat testing, endurance and maturing through different lives. Each link takes you straight to the reading page.
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- Genesis 22
The chapter in which Abraham's faith meets its hardest test — a father called to give up what he holds dearest, and the deliverance that arrives at the last moment.
- Job 23
- Romans 5
Paul's chapter on the peace that comes through faith — how suffering can produce perseverance, perseverance hope, and why that hope does not disappoint.
- 1 Corinthians 10
- James 1
The opening of a letter of practical wisdom, urging perseverance in trials, asking God for wisdom, and doing the word rather than only hearing it.
- 1 Peter 1
The opening of a letter to believers under hardship, encouraging them to hold to a living hope and to lead a set-apart, pure life worthy of that hope.