Thematic Bible: Afflictions made beneficial
Thematic Bible
Afflictions made beneficial » In furthering the gospel
And Saul abused the church, going into houses, and drawing out men and women, delivered to prison.
Therefore truly those dispersed by the pressure having been on account of Stephen, passed through even to Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except the Jews only. And certain of them were Cyprian and Cyrenian men, who having come to Antioch, spake to the Greeks announcing good news, the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number having believed, turned to the Lord.
And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things. concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news;
In which I suffer ill treatment, to bonds, as an evil doer; but the word of God has not been bound.
In my first defence none was present with me, but all forsook me; (may it not be reckoned to them.) But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.
Afflictions made beneficial » In leading us to seek God in prayer
And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah; for nine hundred chariots of iron to him; and he pressed the sons of Israel by force twenty years.
Hearing, I heard Ephraim being thrust away: Thou didst correct me, and I shall be corrected as a calf not being taught: turn me back and I shall be turned back, for thou Jehovah my God.
Jehovah did what he purposed; he completed his word which he commanded in days of old: he pulled down and he pitied not: and be will gladden the enemy over thee; he lifted up the horn of thine adversaries. Their heart cried to Jehovah, O wall of the daughter of Zion, cause tears to go down as a torrent day and night thou shalt give no remission to thyself; the daughter of thine eye shall not be silent Arise, cry aloud in the night: at the head of the watches pour out thy heart as water before the face of Jehovah: lift up thy hands to him for the soul of thy young children fainting with hunger in the head of all the streets.
For I as the lion to Ephraim, and as the young lion to the house of Judah I, I will rend and go away; I will take away and none delivering. I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.
Afflictions made beneficial » In humbling us
And he will humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and will give thee to eat manna which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; so that he caused thee to know that upon bread only man shall not live, but upon all going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall man live.
He giving thee to eat manna in the desert which thy fathers knew not, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee to do thee good in thy lost state:
If I shall shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and if I shall command upon the locust to consume the land, and if I shall send death upon my people; And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.
Afflictions made beneficial » In leading us to confession of sin
I will make known to thee my sin, and mine iniquity I hid not I said, I will confess upon my transgression to Jehovah; and thou didst take away the iniquity of my sin. Silence.
And the people will come to Moses, and they will say, We sinned, for we spake against Jehovah and against thee; wilt thou pray to Jehovah and he will remove the serpent from us? And Moses will pray for the people.
For I shall know my transgression, and my sin is always before me.
Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Afflictions made beneficial » In exercising our patience
For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.
To the overseer: of David chanting. Waiting, I waited for Jehovah, and he will incline to me, and he will hear my cry.
And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;
Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.
Afflictions made beneficial » In testing and exhibiting our sincerity
For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.
Afflictions made beneficial » In exhibiting the power and faithfulness of God
Many the evils of the just one, and Jehovah will deliver him from all of them. He watched all his bones: one of them was not broken.
Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed; Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our body. read more.
For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Afflictions made beneficial » In teaching us the will of God
Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.
My soul desired thee in the night; also my spirit in the midst of me I will seek thee: for when thy judgments to the earth, those dwelling in the habitable globe will learn justice.
The voice of Jehovah will call to the city, and wisdom feared thy name: hear ye the rod, and who appointed it
Afflictions made beneficial » In promoting the glory of God
And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, he, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither did this sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God might be manifested in him.
Then sent the sisters to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Truly, truly, I say to thee, when thou west younger, thou didst gird thyself and walk where thou wouldest;and when thou shalt grow old, thou shalt stretch out thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and bring thee where thou wilt not. And this he said, signifying by what death he shall honour God. And having said this, he says to him, Follow me.
Afflictions made beneficial » Exemplified » Israel
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
And he will humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and will give thee to eat manna which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; so that he caused thee to know that upon bread only man shall not live, but upon all going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall man live.
Afflictions made beneficial » Exemplified » Joseph
And now, ye shall not be grieved, and it shall not burn in your eyes, because ye sold me here: for God sent me before you for the preservation of life.
And God will send me before you to put for you a remnant upon the earth, and to preserve life for you by a great deliverance. And now not you sent me here, but God: and he placed me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Afflictions made beneficial » In rendering us fruitful in good works
Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit.
For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness. And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.
Afflictions made beneficial » Exemplified » hezekiah
And not according to the doing to him did Hezekiah turn back, for his heart was lifted up: and there will be wrath upon him, and upon Judah and upon Jerusalem. And Hezekiah will humble himself for the lifting up of his heart, he and those inhabiting Jerusalem, and the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Afflictions made beneficial » In turning us to God
In straitness to thee, and all these words found thee in the last of the days, and thou didst turn to Jehovah thy God and heardest to his voice; For Jehovah thy God a merciful God; he will not desert thee, and he will not destroy thee, and he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware to them.
Afflictions made beneficial » Exemplified » Manasseh
And when straits were to him he besought the face of Jehovah his God, and he will humble himself greatly from before the God of his fathers.
Afflictions made beneficial » In purifying us
Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart. Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good.
Afflictions made beneficial » In trying our faith and obedience
And it shall be after these words, and God tried Abraham, and he will say to him, Abraham: and he will say, Behold, here I. And he will say, Take now thy son, thine only, whom thou didst love, Isaak, and go by thyself to the land of Moriah; and carry him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I told thee.
Afflictions made beneficial » Exemplified » Joseph's brethren
And they will say, a man to his brother, Truly we guilty concerning our brother, when we saw the straits of his soul in his entreating us, and we heard him not; for this, these straits are come to us.
Afflictions made beneficial » Exemplified » Josiah
Because thy heart was tender and thou wilt be humble from before Jehovah in thy hearing what I spake against this place, and against its inhabitants to be for desolation, and for a curse, and thou wilt rend thy garments and weep before me; and I also heard, says Jehovah.
Afflictions made beneficial » In keeping us from again departing from God
For he said to God, I was lifted up, I will pervert no more. Besides I shall see thou wilt teach it to me: if I did iniquity, I will not add.
Afflictions made beneficial » Exemplified » Prodigal son
And the son said to him, Father, I sinned against heaven, and before thee, and I am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Afflictions made beneficial » In convincing us of sin
And they being bound in fetters shall be taken in the cords of affliction. And he will announce to them their work, and their transgressions, for they will be strong.
Afflictions made beneficial » Exemplified » Jonah
In my soul fainting upon me I remembered Jehovah: and my prayers will come in to thee to thy holy temple.
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