34 Bible Verses about Adversity

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James 1:2-4

Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience. And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day. For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence; We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal

Psalm 145:14

Jehovah upholds to all falling, and raises up for all bowed down.

Psalm 34:17

They cried and Jehovah heard, and he delivered them from all their straits.

James 1:12-15

Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him. Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none: And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed.read more.
So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death.

1 Peter 4:12-13

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy.

1 Samuel 18:1-3

And it will be as he finished to speak to Saul, and the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David, and Jonathan will love him as his soul. And Saul will take him in that day and he gave him not to turn back to the house of his father. And Jonathan and David will cut out a covenant in his loving him as his soul

Proverbs 22:24-25

Thou shalt not be companion of the possessor of anger, and with the man of wrath thou shalt not go: Lest thou shalt learn his ways and take a snare to thy soul.

Proverbs 27:5-6

Naked rebuke is good above secret love. Faithful the wounds of a friend; and abundant the kisses of an enemy.

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Leviticus 26:16

Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.

Deuteronomy 28:31

Thine ox slaughtered before thine eyes and thou shalt not eat from it: thine ass stripped from before thee and shall not turn back to thee; thy sheep, given to thine enemies, and none to thee saving.

Deuteronomy 28:48

And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.

Deuteronomy 28:65

And among these nations thou shalt not rest, and there shall not be rest to the sole of thy foot: and Jehovah gave to thee there a trembling heart and a wasting away of the eyes, and a faintnesss of soul.

Deuteronomy 32:24

Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust

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2 Samuel 12:9-12

Wherefore didst thou despise the word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou didst strike with the sword, and his wife thou tookest to thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

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