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Thematic Bible: Afflictions made beneficial


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Acts 8:3
But Saul was attempting to destroy the church. Entering {house after house}, he dragged off both men and women [and] delivered [them] to prison. Verse ConceptsArrestingIntimidationenemies, of believersChurchPrisonersPulling PeopleDestruction Of The ChurchThe Church UniversalPersecutionjail

Acts 11:19-21
Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, proclaiming the message to no one except Jews alone. But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, [when they] came to Antioch, began to speak to the Hellenists also, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

Philippians 1:12
Now I want you to know, brothers, that {my circumstances} have happened instead for the progress 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 connection with which I suffer misfortune to the point of {imprisonment} as a criminal, 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 one came to my [aid], but [they] all deserted me; may it not be counted against them. But the Lord helped me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fulfilled and all the Gentiles might hear, and he rescued [me] from the lion's mouth.

Judges 4:3
And the {Israelites} cried to Yahweh, as he [had] nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the {Israelites} {cruelly} for twenty years. Verse ConceptsBeggarsOppression, God's Attitude ToPrayer, As Asking GodAnswered PrayerAfflictions, Benefits OfCrying To GodSeven To Nine Hundred20 To 30 YearsIron Objects

Jeremiah 31:18
Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves, 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf that is not trained. Bring me back and let me return, for you [are] Yahweh my God. Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofObstinacy Against GodCalvesChastisementRevival, CorporateAfflictions, Prayer DuringAfflictions, Benefits OfSelf WillReinstating PeopleDisciplineYou Are Our God

Lamentations 2:17-19
Yahweh has done what he has planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he ordained from the days of old; he has demolished and not shown mercy; he has made an enemy rejoice over you, he has exalted the {might} of your foes. Their heart cried to the Lord, "O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a river; day and night, do not give yourself relief, do not give your eyes rest. "Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."

Hosea 5:14-15
Because I [will be] like a lion to Ephraim and like a fierce strong lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and I will go; I will carry off, and there is no one who delivers. {I will return again} to my place until they acknowledge [their] guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.

Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and [then] he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestors know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all [that] goes out of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall 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
the one {feeding you} manna in the desert, [food] that your ancestors did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you [so that he could] do good to you {in the future}. Verse ConceptsEatingMannaTestingBeneficial Afflictions For FaithBeneficial Afflictions For HumilityAfflictions, Benefits OfUnknown ThingsGod Led Them Through The Wilderness

2 Chronicles 7:13-14
When I hold back the heavens so that there is not rain, and when I command the locust to devour the earth, and if I send disease among my people, [then if] my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and will pray and will seek my face and will turn from their evil ways, then I myself shall hear from the heavens and will forgive their sins and heal their land.

Psalm 32:5
I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt 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
The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us." So 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 myself know} 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, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived 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 credit [is it] if, [when you] sin and are beaten [for it], you endure? But if you endure [when you] do good and suffer [for it], this [finds] favor 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
I waited patiently for Yahweh, And he inclined to me and heard my cry for help. 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 [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance, 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
[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 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}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingMan's Waysevil, victory overMetalsProving, Through TestingTestingValuesAfflictions, Benefits OfAlchemyGod Testing PeopleThings Like GoldAlternatives To MoneyTeststrying

Psalm 66:10
For you have tested us, O God; 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
A crucible [is] for the silver, and a furnace [is] for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts. Verse ConceptsFurnacesdrossGoldProving, Through TestingSilverAfflictions, Benefits OfGod, All knowingGod Testing PeoplePurityTestspotexams

Psalm 34:19-20
Many [are the] distresses of [the] righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all. [He] protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.

2 Corinthians 4:8-11
We are afflicted in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying around the death of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. read more.
For we who are alive [are] continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Psalm 119:71
[It is] good for me that I was afflicted, so that I might learn your statutes. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfAfflictions, Benefits OfEncouragement In LifePersonal GoodAfflictions

Isaiah 26:9
I desire you [with all] my soul in the night; also I seek you [with] my spirit within me, for when your judgments [are] {upon} the earth, [the] inhabitants of [the] world learn righteousness. Verse ConceptsSpiritual Desiresdiscipleship, nature ofLonging For GodEarth, Judgment OfNightPrayer, As A Relationship With GodThirstAfflictions, Benefits Of

Micah 6:9
The voice of Yahweh calls to the city ([it is] sound judgment to fear your name): "Hear, staff! Now 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 he] went away, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?" Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

John 11:3
So the sisters sent [word] to him, saying, "Lord, behold, [the one] whom you love is sick." Verse ConceptsSick IndividualsChrist's LoveFriendship And LoveLosing A FriendIllnesslazarus

John 21:18-19
Truly, truly I say to you, when you were young, you tied [your clothes] around yourself and walked wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will tie you up and carry [you] where you do not want [to go]. (Now he said this to indicate by what kind of death he would glorify God.) And [after he] had said this, he said to him, "Follow me!"

Deuteronomy 8:5
And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, [so] Yahweh your God [is] disciplining 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 let you go hungry, and [then] he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestors know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all [that] goes out of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall 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
So now, do not be distressed and do not be angry {with yourselves} that you sold me here, for God sent me as deliverance before you. Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfKept Alive By GodIndividuals Saving OthersIdentitypreservation

Genesis 45:7-8
And God sent me before you [all] to preserve for you a remnant in the land and to keep alive among you many survivors. So now, you yourselves did not send me here, but God put me here as father to Pharaoh and as master of all his household, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt.

John 15:2
Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every [branch] that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear 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 disciplined [us] for a few days according to what seemed [appropriate] to them, but he [does so] for our benefit, in order that [we] can have a share in his holiness. Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

2 Chronicles 32:25-26
But Hezekiah did not reciprocate according to the benefit [placed] upon him, because his heart became proud. So wrath was upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. But Hezekiah humbled himself with respect to the arrogance of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Deuteronomy 4:30-31
{In your distress} when all these things have found you in the {latter days}, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he {will not abandon you}, and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors that he swore to them.

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

Ecclesiastes 7:2-3
Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for [death is] the end of every person, and the living should take [it] to his heart. Sorrow [is] better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made good.

Genesis 22:1-2
And it happened [that] after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I [am]." And he said, "Take your son, your only child, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains where I will tell you."

Genesis 42:21
Then each said to his brother, "Surely we [are] guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us." Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

2 Kings 22:19
because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh. Verse ConceptsHumilityRepentance, Examples OfRenewed HeartPenitentConviction Of SinAfflicted Saints, Examples OfHumbling OneselfHumble YourselfChanging Yourself

Job 34:31-32
"Indeed, does anyone say to God, 'I have endured [chastisement]; I will not act corruptly [again]; teach me yourself {what I cannot see}; if I have done wrong, I will not repeat [it]'?

Luke 15:21
And [his] son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and {in your sight}! I am no longer 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 tied up with fetters, [if] they are caught in [the] cords of misery, then he declares their work to them, and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

Jonah 2:7
When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, {to your holy temple}. Verse ConceptsRememberingAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFaintingThe Temple In HeavenGod Answered PrayerBelievers Remembering God

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