9 Bible Verses about Despair
Most Relevant Verses
For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of that insupportable weight of affliction that over-whelm'd me so in Asia that I despaired even of life:
so that now you ought rather to forgive, and comfort him, for fear he should be overwhelm'd by an excess of sorrow.
nay, I abandon'd my self to death, that I might not rely upon my self for deliverance, but on God who raiseth the dead.
and he did deliver me from so terrible a death, and on him I have relied for further deliverance: especially,
for this is to me matter of glorying, the testimony of my conscience, that without artifice, and with religious sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by God's favourable assistance I have behaved my self towards all men, but more particularly to you.
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Despair » General references to
in those days shall men seek for death, but shall not find it; they will desire to die, and death will shun them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
but after he had purchased a field with the reward of his iniquity, he fell down, his belly burst, and all his bowels gushed out:
then throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and went and hanged himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And the FIFTH angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness, and they gnawed their tongues for pain. and blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
I am press'd on every side, yet not crush'd; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; dejected, but not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
"fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb:
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
then throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and went and hanged himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6in those days shall men seek for death, but shall not find it; they will desire to die, and death will shun them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13you have met with no trials yet, but such as are common to men: and God who is faithful, will not suffer you to be tempted above your strength; but will with the temptation make a way to escape, by enabling you to bear it.
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