Bible Verses About Trials
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for trials, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,485 votes, led by James 1:2-4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Trials
James 1:2-4430 votes
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Romans 5:3-5362 votes
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
James 1:12327 votes
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
1 Peter 4:12-13248 votes
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
John 16:33213 votes
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
1 Corinthians 10:13182 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Romans 12:12171 votes
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Romans 8:28166 votes
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.
1 Peter 5:10163 votes
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Romans 8:18150 votes
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
James 1:1-27123 votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Proverbs 3:5-6118 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
1 Peter 4:12116 votes
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Romans 5:3114 votes
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
James 1:2107 votes
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Revelation 2:10107 votes
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Philippians 4:6-7106 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
1 Peter 1:6106 votes
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
James 4:7103 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18100 votes
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Acts 14:2297 votes
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
1 Peter 1:6-793 votes
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Romans 8:3592 votes
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Corinthians 1:3-487 votes
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
2 Corinthians 6:4-886 votes
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
What does the Bible say about trials?
Readers most often cite James 1:2-4 on the subject of trials. Across 7,485 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 5:3-5, James 1:12, 1 Peter 4:12-13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.