46 Bible Verses about Afflictions

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any manner, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God. For I have all his ordinances before me and am attentive to his statutes; I will not depart from them. read more.
And I was perfect before him and have kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore, the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. With the merciful thou art good, and with the perfect thou art upright. With the pure thou art pure, and with the perverse thou art an adversary. Thou wilt save the poor in spirit; but thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou may bring them down.

For he will not lay upon man more than that which is just; that he should enter into judgment with God. He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their stead. Therefore, he shall cause their works to be notorious, when he shall overturn them in the night, so that they are destroyed. read more.
He shall strike them as wicked men in the open sight of others because thus they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

I know that the LORD will effect the judgment of the poor and the judgment of the destitute.

All the days of the poor are difficult, but he that is of a good heart has a continual feast.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out; he is excellent in power and in judgment, and in plenty of righteousness he will not afflict.

Caph For the Lord will not cast off for ever: Caph But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. Caph For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart. read more.
Lamed To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, Lamed To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, Lamed To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve. Mem Who shall he be that saith that something comes which the Lord has not sent? Mem Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good? Mem Why does the living man have pain, the man in his sins?

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore prudent as serpents and innocent as doves. But keep yourselves from men, for they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; and ye shall even be brought before princes and kings for my sake, for testimony unto them and to the Gentiles.

All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another. read more.
And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. And because lawlessness shall abound, the charity of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and saving health, which is effected in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and saving health.

Who shall believe our report? and upon whom shall the arm of the LORD be manifested? With all this he shall grow up before him as a tender sprout and as a root out of a dry ground. There is no outward appearance in him, nor beauty. We shall see him, yet nothing attractive about him that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. read more.
Surely he has borne our sicknesses and suffered our pain: and we considered him stricken, smitten of God, and cast down. But he was wounded for our rebellions; he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his stripes healing was provided for us. All we like sheep have become lost; we have turned each one to his own way; and the LORD transposed in him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he did not open his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall count his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the rebellion of my people he was smitten. And he made his grave with the wicked, and his death with the rich; even though he had never done evil, neither was any deceit in his mouth. With all this the LORD chose to bruise him; subjecting him to grief. When he shall have offered his soul for atonement, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the will of the LORD shall be prospered in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. And by his knowledge shall my righteous slave justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil unto the strong because he has poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the rebellious, having born the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

But watch thou in all things, labour, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry.

The fools, because of the way of their rebellion, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Koph Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD shall deliver him out of them all,

For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us;

Behold, blessed is the man whom God chastens; therefore, do not despise not the correction of the Almighty.

But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy.

Before I was humbled, I went into error, but now I keep thy spoken word.

For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us;

Behold, blessed is the man whom God chastens; therefore, do not despise not the correction of the Almighty.

But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy.

Before I was humbled, I went into error, but now I keep thy spoken word.

And know in thine heart, that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD thy God chastens thee.

My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For the LORD chastens whom he loves and delights in, even as a father to his son.

And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:

But being judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore, and repent.

who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

He shall deliver thee in six tribulations, and in the seventh no evil shall touch thee.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the mortal pestilence.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

And even to your old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you; I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will deliver you.

My soul is also greatly troubled; but thou, O LORD, how long?

How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Restore my soul from their destructions, my life from the lions.

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

O LORD God of the hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who had never believed in the LORD their God.

Furthermore, king Ahaz in the time of his distress trespassed even more against the LORD,

But he never humbled himself before the LORD as Manasseh, his father, humbled himself; to the contrary Amon multiplied the guilt.

and didst protest unto them, that they return unto thy law; yet they dealt proudly and did not hearken unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments (which if a man shall do, in them he shall live) and withdrew the shoulder and hardened their neck and would not hear.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore, they shall fall among those that shall fall: at the time that I visit them they shall fall, saith the LORD.

But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD is my God.

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast refined us as silver is refined.

and I will turn my hand upon thee and according to pureness purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin;

Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me above measure, there is given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

So I spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me above measure, there is given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

So I spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

And know in thine heart, that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD thy God chastens thee.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.

Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction upon our loins.

And know in thine heart, that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD thy God chastens thee.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.

Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction upon our loins.

And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, according to the mercy we have received, we fault not,

Therefore we fault not; but though our outward man is wearing out, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

Therefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his face saved them: with his love and with his clemency he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of the age.

For I know with certainty that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory which shall be manifested in us.

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

This is my comfort in my affliction; for thy spoken word has caused me to live.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath.

He delivered them many times, but they rebelled at his counsel and were brought low for their iniquity. Nevertheless he would look upon their affliction and hear their cry and remember his covenant with them and repent according to the multitude of his mercies. read more.
He also caused those that carried them captives to have mercy upon them.

And therefore will the LORD wait for you, that he may have mercy on you, and therefore will he be exalted having mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all those that wait for him. For the people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he who has mercy shall show mercy unto thee; at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. But the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; thy rain shall never more be taken away, but thine eyes shall see thy rain: read more.
Then thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, that ye not turn to the right hand and that ye not turn to the left hand.

Caph But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Therefore I will wait for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my saving health; my God will hear me. Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; for if I have fallen, I shall arise; if I sit in darkness, the LORD is my light. I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he has judged my cause and executed my judgment; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

And know in thine heart, that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD thy God chastens thee.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

For the LORD chastens whom he loves and delights in, even as a father to his son.

But being judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

for whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges everyone whom he receives as a son. If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

Deep calls unto deep at the voice of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

Thy wrath lies hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the flood would have gone over our soul;

But the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; thy rain shall never more be taken away, but thine eyes shall see thy rain:

And I said unto him, lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are those who came out of great tribulation and have washed their long robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Deep calls unto deep at the voice of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face. His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me. read more.
They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble. I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark. His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground. He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant. I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head. My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,

Thou hast placed a man over our head; we went through fire and through water, but thou didst bring us out into abundance.

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about; all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

However, because by this deed, thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme; the son that is born unto thee shall surely die.

If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments, if they profane my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will visit their rebellion with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth and smote him: I hid my face and was wroth, and he went on rebelliously in the way of his heart.

and said, O full of all deception and all licentiousness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is against thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

and call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O JAH, and teach him out of thy law,

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; thou wilt soften all his bed in his sickness.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me; thou shalt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the mountain of Mizar.

I sink in deep mire where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

I shall meditate that I might understand this; it is very hard for me to see.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Then Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, The word of the LORD which thou hast spoken is good. And he said, For shall there not be peace and truth in my days?

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

But if he should say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here I am, let him do to me as seems good unto him.

Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

But they will do all these things unto you for my name's sake, because they do not know him that sent me.

persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, persecutions I have endured, and the Lord delivered me out of them all. And all that desire to live godly in Christ Jesus shall also suffer persecution.

Because the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be on the vines; the labour of the olive shall lie, and the cultivated fields shall yield no food; the sheep shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will joy in the God of my saving health.

Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy; for, behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers treated the prophets in the same manner.

For his anger endures but a moment; in his will is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger for ever.

For a small moment I have forsaken thee; but with great mercies I will gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with eternal mercy I will have compassion on thee, said the LORD thy Redeemer.

Thou dost feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Nevertheless this darkness shall not be the same as the affliction that came upon her when they lightly touched the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, nor afterward when they more grievously afflicted her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles.

Fear thou not, O Jacob my slave, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the Gentiles where I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will chastise thee with judgment; and I will not completely cut thee off.

If he cuts off, or shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

Shall the axe boast itself against him that hews with it? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that moves it? as if the rod should rise up against those that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift itself up. Is it not wood?

I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil: I am the LORD that does all this.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which is lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body's sake, which is the congregation ,

Even as I have seen, those that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same.

His bones are full of the sins of his youth, which shall be buried with him in the dust.

Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own counsel.

For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us;

And we now know that unto those who love God, all things help them unto good, to those who according to the purpose are called to be saints.

Behold, blessed is the man whom God chastens; therefore, do not despise not the correction of the Almighty.

And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him; and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; for what should I wait for the LORD any longer?

For the iniquity does not come forth out of the dust; neither does chastisement spring up out of the ground;

the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.

Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God thought it out unto good, to bring to pass that which we see this day, to give life to many people.

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built the supply cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew, so much that they loathed the sons of Israel.

And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD is my God.

And he shall sit to refine and to purify the silver: for he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them curses me.

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guiltiness, seeing that thou our God hast intervened that we no longer be oppressed because of our iniquities and hast given us such an escape as this,

He has not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely,

But at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them,

And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me; nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

Then Jesus said unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath; the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?

These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to remain in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Behold, blessed is the man whom God chastens; therefore, do not despise not the correction of the Almighty.

Behold, we count blessed those who endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very merciful, and full of compassion.

that no one should be moved in these tribulations, for you know that we are appointed for this.

And one of the elders responded and asked me, Who are these who are arrayed in long white robes? and where did they come from? And I said unto him, lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are those who came out of great tribulation and have washed their long robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather glory in my weaknesses that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Caph For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

For the iniquity does not come forth out of the dust; neither does chastisement spring up out of the ground;

Then he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, I will judge; and afterward shall they come out with great riches.

Beloved, think it not strange when you are tried by fire (which is done to prove you) as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of the afflictions of the Christ, so that also in the revelation of his glory, ye may rejoice in triumph.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and death shall be no more neither shall there be any more sorrow nor crying nor pain; for the former things are passed away.

Beloved, think it not strange when you are tried by fire (which is done to prove you) as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of the afflictions of the Christ, so that also in the revelation of his glory, ye may rejoice in triumph.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth sons; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field; read more.
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Koph Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD shall deliver him out of them all, Resh keeping all his bones; not one of them shall be broken.

And Samuel declared all of it to him without hiding any thing. Then he said, It is the LORD; let him do what seems good unto him.

And if thou must deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found grace in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

For ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing that in yourselves ye have a better substance in the heavens, and that abides.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

When thou dost pass through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou dost walk through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast refined me and hast found no iniquity; that which I thought did not pass through my mouth.

And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another as ye walk and are sad?

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou caused this people to pass the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? We should have been content and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!

And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, Let the will of the Lord be done.

For his anger endures but a moment; in his will is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

he is like a man who built a house and dug deep and laid the foundation upon rock; and when the flood arose, the river beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it, for it was founded upon rock.

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

and thou shalt forget thy misery and remember it as waters that passed away;

and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me; nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

Then Jesus said unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath; the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?

And he went a little further and fell on his face, praying and saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guiltiness, seeing that thou our God hast intervened that we no longer be oppressed because of our iniquities and hast given us such an escape as this,

He has not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

And Samuel lay until the morning and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision. Then Eli called Samuel and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I. And he said, What is the word that the LORD has spoken unto thee? I pray thee do not hide it from me. God do so to thee and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the word that he spoke unto thee. read more.
And Samuel declared all of it to him without hiding any thing. Then he said, It is the LORD; let him do what seems good unto him.

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely, who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks. But at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them,

And when the child was grown, it came to pass one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a servant, Carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon and then died. read more.
Then she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door upon him and went out. And calling her husband, she said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men and one of the asses that I may run to the man of God and come again. And he said, Why must thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, Peace. Then she caused the ass to be saddled and said to her servant, Lead and go forward; slack not the pace for me except I bid thee. So she went and came unto the man of God to Mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi, his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite. Run now, I pray thee, to meet her and say unto her, Dost thou have peace? And thy husband? And the child? And she answered, Peace. And when she came to the man of God in the mountain, she caught him by the feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is bitter within her; and the LORD has hid it from me and has not revealed it to me. Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me? Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins and take my staff in thy hand and go; if thou meet anyone, salute him not; and if anyone salutes thee, answer him not again, and lay my staff upon the face of the child. Then the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. And he arose and followed her. And Gehazi had gone on before them and had laid the staff upon the face of the child, but there was neither voice, nor attention. Therefore he went again to meet him and told him, saying, The child is not awaked. And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was laid dead upon his bed. He went in therefore and shut the door upon both of them and prayed unto the LORD. Then he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth upon his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon his hands; thus he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. Then he returned and walked through the house to and fro and went up and stretched himself upon him again; and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. And he called Gehazi and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And as she was coming in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. Then she entered in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground and took up her son and went out.

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer and put fire therein and put incense thereon and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he had never commanded them. And there went out fire from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is what the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in those that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron was silent.

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer rose up in my bosom.

Then the king went to his palace and lay down without eating; neither were instruments of music brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.