“The Bible says "this too shall pass."”
That phrase is not in Scripture. It comes from an old Persian tale that traveled into English proverb. The Bible does say something near it, and better: our affliction is light and momentary compared to the eternal weight of glory it works in us.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. — 2 Corinthians 4:17
Search the whole of Scripture and this phrase will not turn up, in the King James or any other translation. It circulated as a proverb about the fleeting nature of fortune, and because it sounds weathered and wise, it drifted into Christian speech and eventually got a chapter and verse attached to it in people's memory. The sentiment is not wrong so much as it is thin. It says your pain will end, which is true, but it says nothing about what the pain is for or who is holding you while it lasts. Paul goes further: he calls affliction light and but for a moment, and says it worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen. That is not the passing of a storm cloud. That is suffering being turned into something that outlasts this world.
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