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Thematic Bible: Afflictions made beneficial


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Acts 8:3
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and dragging off men and women committed them to prison. Verse ConceptsArrestingIntimidationenemies, of believersChurchPrisonersPulling PeopleDestruction Of The ChurchThe Church UniversalPersecutionjail

Acts 11:19-21
Now they who were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they were come to Antioch, spoke unto the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

Philippians 1:12
But I wish you to understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have served rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; Verse ConceptsBeneficial Affliction In Furthering The GospelAfflictions, Benefits OfGrowth In ProclamationThe Gospel PreachedServingEverything Happening For A ReasonSpreading The Gospelpartnershiptrails

2 Timothy 2:9
In which I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. Verse ConceptsChainsPersecution Of The Apostle PaulSufferingThe Word Of GodHardshipjail

2 Timothy 4:16-17
At my first defense no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. However the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Judges 4:3
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. Verse ConceptsBeggarsOppression, God's Attitude ToPrayer, As Asking GodAnswered PrayerAfflictions, Benefits OfCrying To GodSeven To Nine Hundred20 To 30 YearsIron Objects

Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: restore me, and I shall return; for you are the LORD my God. Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofObstinacy Against GodCalvesChastisementRevival, CorporateAfflictions, Prayer DuringAfflictions, Benefits OfSelf WillReinstating PeopleDisciplineYou Are Our God

Lamentations 2:17-19
The LORD has done that which he had purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the might of your adversaries. Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no relief; let not your eyes rest. Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Hosea 5:14-15
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear them and go away; I will take them away, and none shall rescue him. I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live. Verse ConceptsSpiritual HungerMannaMouthsSpeech, DivineWordsBeneficial Afflictions For HumilityBibleSpiritual Life, Maintained ByBible, Given ForAfflictions, Benefits OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfUnknown ThingsReceiving God's WordBreadFeeding The Poorhunger

Deuteronomy 8:16
Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good in the end; Verse ConceptsEatingMannaTestingBeneficial Afflictions For FaithBeneficial Afflictions For HumilityAfflictions, Benefits OfUnknown ThingsGod Led Them Through The Wilderness

2 Chronicles 7:13-14
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Psalm 32:5
I acknowledged my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Verse ConceptsAcknowledge, SinIniquity, Believer's Relation ToCoveringdrought, spiritualBlameAssurance, nature ofGuilt, Removal OfSanctification, Means And ResultsAfflictions, Benefits OfGod Has ForgivenPsalm InterjectionsSin ConfessedConfession of sinForgiving YourselfGuiltAcknowledgedconfessing

Numbers 21:7
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodMoses, Significance OfRepentance, Examples OfAcknowledge, SinAfflictions, Benefits OfPraying For SinnersWe Have SinnedComplaints

Psalm 51:3
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Verse ConceptsRegretAcknowledge, SinAfflictions, Benefits OfConviction Of SinPainful MemoriesSelf KnowledgeSin Clings To The SinnerHuman Awareness Of GuiltAcknowledged

Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombAdam, Results Of SinUnborn Fetusesethics, and graceBeing Born In SinBirth, PhysicalHuman NatureSanctification, Nature And BasisSin, Universality OfWombDepravity Of ManThe Sin NatureOrigins Of SinParents SinRegretting BirthBabies Sinful From Birthmoms

1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is commendable with God. Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsFloggingGood WorksPatience, ProducesAfflictions, Benefits OfSuffering For Christ's SakeAccepting BeatingsBe Patient!Christ's Disciples Will SufferPeople Commended By GodSource Of HonourSufferingDoing The Right ThingBeing PatientDoing Your BestPatience In RelationshipsPatience In Hard TimesMaking Mistakeshumorpatientpatientsrehabilitationpeter

Psalm 40:1
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. Verse ConceptsPatience, In Christian LivingPrayer, Persistence InReceptivenessPatience ExercisedAfflictions, Benefits OfThose Who Wait For GodGod Paid Attention To MeWaiting On The LordWaiting For God's Timing

Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience; Verse ConceptsCharacterPatience, ProducesPatiencePatience, The Nature OfAfflictions, Benefits OfRejoicing In TribulationDistressChrist's Disciples Will SufferRejoicing In TrialRejoicing In ChristAfflictionsstruggleSufferingEnduranceLife StrugglesRelationship TroublesStress And Hard TimesChange And GrowthPatience In RelationshipsStrugglesPatience In Hard TimesPersistenceHard Work And PerseveranceMaturityperserverancepatientperseveringexperiencetrailsTaking Risks With Faith

James 1:3
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience. Verse ConceptsCharacterPatience, ProducesTrialsPatience, The Nature OfAfflictions, Benefits OfGod Testing PeopleMaintaining FaithEnduringPatienceHard Timesfaith in hard timesHope In Hard TimesEnduranceLife StrugglesHope And FaithOvercoming Hard TimesBeing PatientExerciseHardshipStrugglesPatience In Hard TimesTestsSuccess And Hard WorkOvercoming AdversityPersistenceHard Work And PerseveranceMaturityperserverancepatientpatientsperseveringsteadfasttrailstrying

Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingMan's Waysevil, victory overMetalsProving, Through TestingTestingValuesAfflictions, Benefits OfAlchemyGod Testing PeopleThings Like GoldAlternatives To MoneyTeststrying

Psalm 66:10
For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried. Verse ConceptsSeasons, Of LifeSilverAfflictions, Benefits OfGod Testing PeopleThings Like SilverThings ImprovedGod Appointed AfflictionsTestsResolving Conflicttrying

Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts. Verse ConceptsFurnacesdrossGoldProving, Through TestingSilverAfflictions, Benefits OfGod, All knowingGod Testing PeoplePurityTestspotexams

Psalm 34:19-20
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.

2 Corinthians 4:8-11
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. read more.
For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Psalm 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfAfflictions, Benefits OfEncouragement In LifePersonal GoodAfflictions

Isaiah 26:9
With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. Verse ConceptsSpiritual Desiresdiscipleship, nature ofLonging For GodEarth, Judgment OfNightPrayer, As A Relationship With GodThirstAfflictions, Benefits Of

Micah 6:9
The LORD'S voice cries unto the city, and wisdom shall see your name: Hear the rod, and who has appointed it. Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human NatureGod Appointed AfflictionsAssembling IsraelGod's VoicePay Attention To God!Other References To God's NameFear God!God Gives Wisdom

John 9:1-3
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Teacher, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

John 11:3
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick. Verse ConceptsSick IndividualsChrist's LoveFriendship And LoveLosing A FriendIllnesslazarus

John 21:18-19
Verily, verily, I say unto you, When you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you would: but when you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall dress you, and carry you where you would not. This spoke he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he said unto him, Follow me.

Deuteronomy 8:5
You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you. Verse ConceptsGod, Fatherhood OfFathers, Responsibilities Ofdiscipline, in the familydiscipline, divineChastisementKnowing God, Effects OfPunishment, By GodSonsThoughtfulnessGod Appointed AfflictionsStrictness

Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live. Verse ConceptsSpiritual HungerMannaMouthsSpeech, DivineWordsBeneficial Afflictions For HumilityBibleSpiritual Life, Maintained ByBible, Given ForAfflictions, Benefits OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfUnknown ThingsReceiving God's WordBreadFeeding The Poorhunger

Genesis 45:5
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life. Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfKept Alive By GodIndividuals Saving OthersIdentitypreservation

Genesis 45:7-8
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

John 15:2
Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Verse ConceptsAbiding In ChristPruningChastisementSuffering, Of BelieversUnfruitfulnessAfflictions, Benefits OfBearingCommandments Of ChristCutting Off BranchesThe Source Of FruitClean ObjectsBranches Of Christflexibilityfruitfulnesscutting

Hebrews 12:10-11
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.

2 Chronicles 32:25-26
But Hezekiah returned not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Deuteronomy 4:30-31
When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.

2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtHumilityHumility, Examples OfPrayer, Offered WithAfflicted Saints, Examples OfSeeking The Favour Of God

Ecclesiastes 7:2-3
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Genesis 22:1-2
And it came to pass after these things, that God did test Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here am I. And he said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and get you into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell you of.

Genesis 42:21
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

2 Kings 22:19
Because your heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD. Verse ConceptsHumilityRepentance, Examples OfRenewed HeartPenitentConviction Of SinAfflicted Saints, Examples OfHumbling OneselfHumble YourselfChanging Yourself

Job 34:31-32
Surely it is fitting to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: That which I see not you teach me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Luke 15:21
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son. Verse ConceptsGuilt, Human Aspects OfRepentance, Examples OfConviction Of SinAfflicted Saints, Examples OfWe Have SinnedBeing A Good Father

Job 36:8-9
And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction; Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have exceeded.

Jonah 2:7
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto you, into your holy temple. Verse ConceptsRememberingAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFaintingThe Temple In HeavenGod Answered PrayerBelievers Remembering God

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