9 Bible Verses about Despair
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For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our tribulation which befell us in Asia; that we were exceedingly weighed down beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
yea, we ourselves had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, Who raiseth the dead;
Who delivered us out of so great a death, and will still deliver: on Whom we have set our hope, that He will also still deliver;
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
From Thematic Bible
Despair » General references to
And in those days will men seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they will desire to die, and death flees from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
This man, therefore, acquired a field with the reward of unrighteousness; and, falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out;
And, throwing the pieces of silver into the temple, he withdrew; and, going away, he hanged himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became darkened; and they were gnawing their tongues because of the pain; and they blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they repented not of their works.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
being pressed on every side, yet not cooped up; perplexed, yet not despairing; pursued, yet not abandoned; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him Who is sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
And, throwing the pieces of silver into the temple, he withdrew; and, going away, he hanged himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6And in those days will men seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they will desire to die, and death flees from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13A temptation has not taken you, except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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