God tests your faith, limits your trials, and makes you more like Jesus.

“Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation” (Jer 25:12)
“knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.” (Jm 1:3)
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed [summorphos] to the image of His Son” (Rom 8:29)
“that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed [summorphizo] to His death” (Phil 3:10)
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed [summorphos] to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.” (Phil 3:20-21)
“being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil 1:6)
“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time” (1Pet 5:6)
“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” (1Cor 10:13)
“And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.” (1Cor 15:49)
“and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him” (Col 3:10)
“Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side?” (Job 1:10)
“strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy” (Col 1:11)
“And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test [nasah] you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.” (Deut 8:2-3)
“I know also, my God, that You test [bachan] the heart and have pleasure in uprightness.” (1Chr 29:17)
“But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.” (Job 23:10)
“But establish the just; for the righteous God tests [bachan] the hearts and minds.” (Ps 7:9)
“The LORD tests [bachan] the righteous” (Ps 11:5)
“You have tested [bachan] my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried [tsaraph] me and have found nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.” (Ps 17:3)
“Examine [bachan] me, O LORD, and prove [nasah] me; try [tsaraph] my mind and my heart.” (Ps 26:2)
“For You, O God, have tested [bachan] us; You have refined [tsaraph] us as silver is refined.” (Ps 66:10)
“You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested [bachan] you at the waters of Meribah.” (Ps 81:7)
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; try [bachan] me, and know my anxieties” (Ps 139:23)
“The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests [bachan] the hearts.” (Prov 17:3)
“Behold, I have refined [tsaraph] you, but not as silver; I have tested [bachar=chosen] you in the furnace of affliction.” (Isa 48:10)
“For You, O God, have tested [bachan] us; You have refined [tsaraph] us as silver is refined.” (Ps 66:10)
“But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me, and You have tested [bachan] my heart toward You.” (Jer 12:3)
“But, O LORD of hosts, You who judge righteously, testing [bachan] the mind and the heart” (Jer 11:20)
“Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested [peirazo], and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.” (Rev 2:10)
“And not only that, but we also glory [kauchaomai=boast] in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces [katergazomai] perseverance [hupomone]; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” (Rom 5:3-5)
“My brethren, count it all joy [chara] when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing [dokimion] of your faith produces [katergazomai] patience [hupomone]. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” (Jm 1:2-4)
“But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory [doxa] by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.” (1Pet 5:10)
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies [oiktirmos] and God of all comfort [paraklesis], who comforts [parakaleo] us in all our tribulation, that we may be able [dunamis] to comfort [parakaleo] those who are in any trouble, with the comfort [paraklesis] with which we ourselves are comforted [parakaleo] by God.” (2Cor 1:3-4)
“I speak not by commandment, but I am testing [dokimazo] the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.” (2Cor 8:8-9)
Reading: Jer 25-27; 2Cor 11