2 Thessalonions 1:3-7

“We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.”

James 1:2-4

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

James 1:12

“Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.”

James 1:13-15

“When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.”

1 Peter 1:6-7

“now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire- may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”

2 Peter 2:9

“the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials”

Ok so this is a lot of verses. I will try and go through and talk about what I get from them.
So I’ll start by talking about bad things. A lot of people ask “if God is so good then why do bad things happen?” which I’ve talked about before. My whole light/dark good/evil analogy. You can’t have light without dark, you can’t have good without bad. Another answer is that humans have free choice, God doesn’t do evil, he can’t (Isaiah 55:8-9, Rom. 3:23, Rom. 5:12, Eph. 2:3) and thus God didn’t create evil. Evil is the absence of God. The third reason and the one I’m going to talk about is that evil causes tribulations and trials which creates perseverance (James 1:2-4) Thus if we didn’t have evil (which causes trials) we wouldn’t ever grow(1 Peter 1:6-7) and yet when we are tempted we shouldn’t worry (Matthew 6:25, 2 Peter 2:9) because God will take care of us. Also we can know that when we are tempted we will get a reward for standing firm against it. Now to stand firm you need verses that you can recite after all Jesus used verses from the Bible when the Devil tempted him. Here are some good verses

James 4:7

“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

Psalm 32:8

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way
you should go;
I will counsel you and watch over you.

Psalm 91:4

“”Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.”

So you can be sure God will protect you, you can be sure the Devil will flee from you. Stand Strong through trials and tribulations and know that without evil there cannot be good.