46 Bible Verses about Afflictions
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For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.
Rejoicing in hope; holding out under pressure; persevering in prayer;
Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.
What will ye purpose against Jehovah? he made a completion: straits shall not rise up twice.
And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;
He will deliver the poor one in his affliction, and he will uncover their ear in oppression.
And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain.
We rejoiced according to the days thou didst humble us, the years we saw evil.
I will rejoice and be glad in thy mercy, for thou sawest mine affliction; thou knewest my soul in straits;
For he despised not and he abhorred not the afflictions of the bumble; and he hid not his face from him, and in his crying to him he heard.
Song of ascensions. Remember, O Jehovah, for David with all his affliction.
Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.
But that the Holy Spirit testifies in the city, saying that bonds and pressures await me.
Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God;
I know thy works, and pressure, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but the synagogue of the adversary.
For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.
And Jehovah will say, Seeing, I saw the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I heard their cry from the face of their pressers; and I knew their pains.
For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:
And took him out of all his pressures, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set him leader over Egypt and his whole house.
From Thematic Bible
Afflictions » The afflicted
Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict. If afflicting, thou shalt afflict him, if crying, he shall cry to me, hearing, I will hear his cry.
Jehovah will recompense me according to my justice: According to the cleanness of my hands he turned back to me. For I have watched the ways of Jehovah, And I acted not wickedly away from my God. For all his judgments before me, And his laws I will not depart from them. read more.
And I will be blameless to him, and I shall be washed from mine iniquity. Jehovah will turn back to me according to my justice: According to my cleanness before his eyes. With the merciful thou wilt be merciful, With the perfect man thou wilt be perfect With the chosen thou wilt be chosen, And with the perverse thou wilt be unseasoned. And the people of affliction thou wilt save: And thine eyes upon the lifted-up, thou wilt humble.
For he will not yet set upon man to go to God in judgment He shall break in pieces the mighty, not searching out, and he will set others in their stead. For this he will know their work, and he turned the night, and they will be crushed. read more.
He struck them for the unjust in the place of those seeing; Who therefore turned away from after him, and they consider not all his ways, To cause the cry of the poor one to come to him, and he will hear the cry of the humble.
All the days of the afflicted are evil: and the good of heart drinking always.
Afflictions » The lord not afflicting
The Almighty we found not: great of power and judgment, and much justice, he will not afflict
For Jehovah will not cast of forever: For if he afflicted, and he compassionated according to the multitude of his mercy. For he afflicted not from his heart and grieved the sons of men, read more.
To crush under his feet all the bound of the earth, To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High. To pervert a man in his contention Jehovah saw not Who this saying, And it shall be Jehovah commanding not? From the mouth of the Most High shall not come forth evil and good. Why shall a living man murmur? a man for his sin?
Afflictions » Christians being afflicted
Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore discerning as serpents, and pure as doves. And hold ye from men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their assemblies will they scourge you. And ye shalt be brought before leaders and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
And all these the beginning of anguish. Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name. And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another. read more.
And many false prophets shall be raised up, and deceive many. And because anxiety shall increase, the love of many shall be cooled. But he having persevered to the end, this shall be saved.
Afflictions » What comes out of affliction
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence; We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal
Afflictions » What affliction is for
And whether we are pressed, for your comfort and salvation, being well wrought in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer: whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation.
Afflictions » The servant of the lord being afflicted
Who believed in our report? and to whom was the arm of Jehovah uncovered? He shall come up as a sucking child before him, and as a root out of a land of dryness: no form to him and no decoration; and we shall see him, and no appearance and we shall desire him. He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not read more.
Surely he lifted up our afflictions, and our griefs he carried them: and we reckoned him to be smitten, struck of God, and afflicted. And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities; the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed to us. All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him. He was pressed, and he was afflicted, and he will not open his mouth: he was brought as a sheep for the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers being dumb and he will not open his mouth. From constraint and from judgment was he taken, and his generation who shall comprehend? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he struck for them. And he will give with the unjust his grave, and with the rich in his deaths, for he did no violence, and no deceit in his mouth. And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. And be shall see of the labor of his soul, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge my just servant shall justify for many; and he shall bear their iniquities.. For this I will divide to him with many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; for which his soul was poured out to death, and he was numbered with transgressors; and he lifted up the sin of many, and he will supplicate for transgressors.
Afflictions » Enduring afflictions
And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain.
Afflictions » Who is afflicted
Being turned away from the way of their transgression, they will be humbled from their iniquities.
Afflictions » The afflictions of the righteous
Afflictions » Blessings in disguise
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
Afflictions » Often blessings in disguise
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
Afflictions » Chastisement, a mark of the father's love
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs: For whom Jehovah shall love he will rebuke, as a father the son he will delight in.
And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:
And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » Deliverance from, promised to believers
Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;
For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from the word of ruin.
find even to old age I am he; and even to grayness I will bear; I made and I will lift up, and I will bear, and I will deliver.
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Sometimes prolonged
My soul trembled exceedingly: and thou, O Jehovah, how long?
O Jehovah, how long wilt thou see? Turn back my soul from their destruction, my only one from the lions.
O Jehovah, God of armies, how long didst thou smoke against the prayer of thy people?
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » Impenitence in, examples of
And they heard not, and they will harden their neck as the neck Of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.
And in the time of straits to him and he will add to transgress against Jehovah: this the king Ahaz.
And he was not humbled from before Jehovah as Manasseh his father humbled himself; for this Amon multiplied trespass.
And thou wilt testify against them to turn them back to thy law: and they acted proudly and heard not to thy commands, and in thy judgments they sinned in them; (which a man shall do and he lived in them) and they will give a shoulder turning aside, and they hardened their neck and heard not
Were they ashamed when they did abomination? also shaming they will not be ashamed; also they knew not feeling shame; for this they shall fall with those falling: in the time of my reviewing them they shall faint, said Jehovah.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Refining influence of
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy:
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Of ministers and prophets
And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.
And I shall speak to the people in the morning and my wife will die in the evening and I shall do in the morning as I was commanded.
Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady.
Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.
Afflictions » Of ministers and prophets
And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.
And I shall speak to the people in the morning and my wife will die in the evening and I shall do in the morning as I was commanded.
Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady.
Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » From God
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
And she will say to them, Ye shall not call to me Naomi; call to me, Mara: for the Almighty made bitter to me greatly.
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou didst set a heavy burden upon our loins.
Afflictions » From God
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
And she will say to them, Ye shall not call to me Naomi; call to me, Mara: for the Almighty made bitter to me greatly.
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou didst set a heavy burden upon our loins.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » True believers do not faint under
And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:
Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day.
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.
Wherefore I desire not to lose courage in my pressures for you, which is your glory.
Afflictions » General references to
In all their straits not an adversary, and: a messenger of his face saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he will take them up and bear them all the days forever.
For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us.
And Jehovah will say, Seeing, I saw the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I heard their cry from the face of their pressers; and I knew their pains.
Afflictions » Tempered with mercy
And he being compassionate will cover iniquity, and he will not destroy: and he multiplied to turn back his anger, and he will not rouse up all his wrath.
Many times he will deliver them, and they will embitter with their counsel, and they will be brought low in their iniquity. And he will look upon straits to them in his hearing their wailing. And he will remember his covenant to them, and he will console according to the multitude of his mercy. read more.
And he will give them for compassions before all those carrying them away captive.
And for this Jehovah will wait to compassionate you, and for this he will be lifted up to pity you, for Jehovah is a God of judgment: happy all they waiting for him. For the people shall dwell in Zion in Jerusalem: weeping, thou shalt not weep: pitying, he will pity thee at the voice. of thy cry; for in his hearing, he answered thee. And Jehovah gave to you the bread of straits and the waters of oppression, and he will no more cover those teaching thee, and thine eyes shall be seeing those teaching thee: read more.
And thine ears shall hear the word from after thee, saying, This the way, go ye in it when ye shall turn to the right, and when ye shall turn to the left
For if he afflicted, and he compassionated according to the multitude of his mercy.
I will look about for Jehovah, I will wait for God my deliverer; my God will hear me. Thou shalt not rejoice against me, O mine enemy: if I fell I arose: if I shall sit in darkness, Jehovah a light to me. The anger of Jehovah I will bear, for I sinned against him till he shall maintain my contention, and do my judgment: he will bring me forth to the light, I shall look upon his justice.
Afflictions » Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
For whom Jehovah shall love he will rebuke, as a father the son he will delight in.
And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.
For whom the Lord loves he corrects, and he chastises every son which he receives. If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?
Afflictions » Resignation in trials, examples of » Waters of affliction
Deep calling to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.
To the overseer upon the lilies; to David. Save me, O God, for the waters came even to the soul.
Then the waters overflowed us, the torrent passed over our soul:
And Jehovah gave to you the bread of straits and the waters of oppression, and he will no more cover those teaching thee, and thine eyes shall be seeing those teaching thee:
Afflictions » Often severe
And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
Deep calling to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.
But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly. Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face. He rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me. read more.
They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me. God will shut me up to the evil one, and he will cast me into the hands of the unjust I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark: His multitudes will surround upon me, he will cleave my reins asunder, and not spare; he will pour my gall upon the earth. He will break me, breaking upon the face of breaking; he will run upon me as the strong one. I sewed together sackcloth upon my skin, and I thrust my horn into the dust. My face became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death
Thou didst cause men to ride upon our head; we went through fire and through water: and thou wilt bring us forth to abundance.
And thou wilt cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas; and the river will surround me: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.
Afflictions » Sin visited with
Only that despising, thou didst cause the enemies of Jehovah to despise by this thing, also the son born to thee, dying, shall die.
If his sons shall forsake my law, and not go in my judgments; If they shall profane my laws and watch not my commands; And I reviewed their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with blows.
For the iniquity of his plunder was I angry, and I will smite him: covering myself, and I will be angry, and he went turning away in the way of his heart.
O, full of deceit, and all dexterity, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, Wilt thou cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun till the time. And immediately fell upon him mist and darkness; and going about he sought leading by hand.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Divine care in sickness
And call upon me in the day of straits: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honor me.
Jehovah will support him upon a bed of sickness: thou turnedst all his bed in his sickness.
If I shall go in the midst of straits, thou wilt make me alive: against the anger of mine enemies thou wilt stretch forth thy hand, and thy right hand shall save me.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » David
O my God, my soul will be bowed down upon me: for this I will remember from the land of Jordan and the Hermonites, from the mountain of smallness
I sank in mire of depth, and no standing: I came into depths of waters and the floods overwhelmed me.
Afflictions » Resignation in trials, examples of » David
And Hezekiah will say to Isaiah, Good the word of Jehovah which thou spakest And he will say, Shall not peace and truth be in my days?
And now he died, wherefore thus do I fast? shall I be able to yet turn him back? I go to him, and he will not turn back to me.
And if he say thus, I delighted not in thee; behold me, he will do to me as is good in his eyes.
Afflictions » Often arise from the profession of the gospel
Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name.
Expulsions, sufferings, which were to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what expulsions I endured: and the Lord delivered me from all. And all wishing to live devotedly in Christ Jesus shall be driven out.
Afflictions » Rejoicing in tribulation, examples of » Famine
If the fig tree shall not blossom, and no produce in the vines; the work of the olive failed, and the fields made not food; and the sheep being cut off from the fold, and no oxen in the stalls. I will exult in Jehovah, I will rejoice in the God saving me.
Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you.
Rejoice in that day, and skip: for, behold, your reward much in heaven: for according to these did their fathers to the prophets.
Afflictions » Of saints, are but temporary
For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.
In a little moment I forsook thee; and with great mercies I will gather thee. In the outpouring of anger I hid a moment my face from thee; and in eternal mercy I compassionated thee, said Jehovah redeeming thee.
Afflictions » God regulates the measure of
Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.
For the fainting not to what the straits to her according to the time of the first he made light the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali; and afterward he made heavy the way of the sea beyond Jordan of Galilee of the nations.
Thou shalt not fear, O my servant Jacob, says Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a completion among all nations where I thrust thee away there: and I will not make a completion with thee, and I will correct thee for judgment; and acquitting, I will not let thee go unpunished.
Afflictions » God dispenses, as he will
Shall the axe vaunt itself against him hewing with it? shall the saw magnify itself against him moving it up and down? as the rod moving up and down with those lifting it up; as the lifting up of the rod not wood.
I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these.
Afflictions » Rejoicing in tribulation, examples of » Poverty
As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.
Afflictions » Sin produces
His bones were full of his youth, and shall lie down with him in the dust.
And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes
Afflictions » Promises concerning » All things work for the believer's good
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up.
Afflictions » God appoints
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
While yet speaking with them, behold, the messenger will come down to him: and he will say, Behold, this evil from Jehovah; what more shall I wait for Jehovah?
For toil will not come forth from the dust, and labor will not spring up from the earth;
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » The final test
The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove.
Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.
Afflictions » Frequently terminate in good
And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people.
And they will set over them leaders of the tributes in order to afflict them in their burdens. And they will build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses And as they will afflict them, so they will multiply and will increase. And they will feel disgust from the face of the sons of Israel.
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » The refining process
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » Jeremiah
Wo to me, my mother, for thou broughtest me forth a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth. I lent not on interest and they lent not to me on interest: they are altogether cursing me.
Wo to me! for I was as the gatherings of the fruit harvest, as the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fig.
Afflictions » Always less than we deserve
And after all coming upon us for our evil deeds, and in our great guilt, for thou our God didst withhold below our iniquities, and didst give to us an escaping according to this.
He did not to us according to our sins, and he did not recompense upon us according to our iniquities.
Afflictions » Rejoicing in tribulation, examples of » Imprisonment
And many blows having been put upon them, they cast into prison, having commanded the jailor to keep them safely:
And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, praised God: and the imprisoned heard them.
Afflictions » Resignation in trials, examples of » Christ
And he said, Abba, Father, all things possible to thee; turn away this cup from me: but not what I will, but what thou.
Then said Jesus to Peter, Put thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it
Afflictions » Saints are to expect
These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world shall ye have pressure; but take courage; I have conquered the world.
And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » Job
My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul
For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.
Afflictions » Saints have joy under
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
Afflictions » Saints appointed to
For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Membership in the company of the redeemed
And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These having put round white robes, who are they? and whence came they And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Sufficiency of divine grace
And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.
Afflictions » God does not willingly send
Afflictions » Man is born to
For toil will not come forth from the dust, and labor will not spring up from the earth;
Afflictions » God determines the continuance of
And he will say to Abram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in the land not to them; and they shall serve them and they shall humble them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they shall serve, I will judge, and after this they shall come forth with great substance.
Afflictions » Rejoicing in tribulation, examples of » Fiery trials
Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Final deliverance from sorrow and pain
And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Fellowship in Christ's sufferings
Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy.
Afflictions » Consequent upon the fall
To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee. And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field. read more.
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Deliverance
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.
Afflictions » Resignation » Resignation in trials, examples of » Eli
And Samuel will announce to him all the words, and he hid not from him. And he will say, It is Jehovah: the good in his eyes he will do.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » moses
And if so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil
Afflictions » Rejoicing in tribulation, examples of » Loss of property
For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » Elijah
And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Comfort of God's presence
When thou shalt pass through the waters, I with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou shalt go through fire thou shalt not be burnt, and the flame shall not consume thee.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » An eternal home
Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, and believe in me. In my Father's house are many dwellings: and if not, I had said to you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » The inward life tried
Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » The disciples
And he said to them, What words these which, walking about, ye discuss with one another, and are of gloomy aspect?
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » Joshua
And Joshua will say, Ah! Lord Jehovah, wherefore, passing over, didst thou cause this people to pass over Jordan, to give us into the hand of the Amorite, to destroy us? and would we were contented and dwelt on the other side of Jordan
Afflictions » Resignation in trials, examples of » Paul's friends
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Brighter days
For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » The test of the storm
He is like to a man building a house, who digged, and deepened, and set the foundation upon the rock: and there having been an overflow, the river dashed against that house, and was not able to move it: for it was founded upon the rock.
Afflictions » Rejoicing in tribulation, examples of » Persecution
Truly therefore they went rejoicing from the face of the council, that for his name they were deemed worthy to be dishonoured.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Promises to the afflicted
Afflictions » Resignation in trials, examples of » Job
And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.
Afflictions » Instances of resignation in » Jesus, in gethsemane
And he said, Abba, Father, all things possible to thee; turn away this cup from me: but not what I will, but what thou.
Then said Jesus to Peter, Put thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it
And having gone forward a little, he fell upon his face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: but not as I will, but as thou.
Saying, Father, If thou art willing, turn aside this cup from me: but not my will, but thine, be done.
Afflictions » Always less than deserved
And after all coming upon us for our evil deeds, and in our great guilt, for thou our God didst withhold below our iniquities, and didst give to us an escaping according to this.
He did not to us according to our sins, and he did not recompense upon us according to our iniquities.
Afflictions » Instances of resignation in » Against his house were foretold
And Samuel will lie down till the morning, and he will open the doors of the house of Jehovah: and Samuel will be afraid of announcing the vision to Eli. And Eli will call Samuel, and say, Samuel, my son. And he will say, Behold me. And he will say, What the word he spake to thee? not now shalt thou hide from me: so will God do to thee, and so will he add, if thou shalt hide from me a word of all the word which he spake to thee. read more.
And Samuel will announce to him all the words, and he hid not from him. And he will say, It is Jehovah: the good in his eyes he will do.
Afflictions » Instances of resignation in » Paul and silas in prison
And many blows having been put upon them, they cast into prison, having commanded the jailor to keep them safely: Who, having received such an order, cast them into the inner prison, and placed their feet firmly in wood. And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, praised God: and the imprisoned heard them.
Afflictions » Instances of resignation in » The shunammite woman
And the child will grow; and the day will be and he will go forth to his father to those reaping. And he will say to his father, My head, my head. And he will say to the boy, Lift him up to his mother. And he will lift him up and bring him to his mother, and he will lift him up and bring him to his mother, and he will sit upon her knees till noon, and he will die. read more.
And she will go up and lay him down upon the bed of the man of God, and she will shut up after her and go forth. And she will call to her husband and say, Send now to me one of the boys, and one of the she asses, and I will run even to the man of God, and I will turn back And he will say, Wherefore goest thou to him this day? not new moon, and not Sabbath. And she will say, Peace. And she will saddle the ass, and say to her boy, Lead on, and go; thou shalt not hold back for me to ride except I said to thee. And she will go and come to the man of God to mount Carmel. And it will be when the man of God saw her from opposite, and he will say to Gehazi his boy, Behold this Shunamitess. Now run now to her meeting, and say to her, Is peace to thee? and to thy husband? and peace to the child And she will say, Peace. And she will come to the man of God to the mountain, and she will lay hold upon his feet; and Gehazi will come near to push her away; and the man of God will say, Let go to her, for her soul is bitter to her: and Jehovah hid from me and announced not to me. And she will say, Did I ask a son from my lord? said I not, Thou shalt not deceive me? And he will say to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins and take my prop in thy hand, and go: If thou shalt find a man, thou shalt not praise him; and if a man shall praise thee, thou shalt not answer him: and put my prop upon the face of the boy. And the mother of the boy will say, Jehovah lives and thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. And he will rise and go after her. And Gehazi passed over before them, and he will put the prop upon the face of the boy, and no voice and no attention. And he will turn back to meet him; and he will announce to him, saying, The boy awaked not And Elisha will go into the house, and behold, the boy dead, lying upon his bed. And he will go in and shut the door after them two, and he will pray to Jehovah. And he will come up and lie down upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hand; and he will bow himself upon him, and the flesh of the child will be warm. And he will turn back and go into the house, once hence, and once thence; and he will go up, and he will bow himself upon him: and the boy will sneeze, even to seven times; and the boy will open his eyes. And he will call to Gehazi and say, Call to this Shunamitess. And he will call her, and she will come to him, and he will say, Lift up thy son. And she will go in and fall at his feet, and worship him to the earth; and she will lift up her son and go forth.
Afflictions » Instances of resignation in » Aaron, at the death of nadab and abihu
And Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, will take each his censer, and give in them fire, and put upon it incense, and bring before Jehovah strange fire, which he commanded them not And fire will come forth from before Jehovah, and will consume them, and they will die before Jehovah. And Moses will say to Aaron, This which Jehovah spake, saying, In drawing near me I will be consecrated, and before all the people I will be honored. And Aaron will be silent
Afflictions » Instances of resignation in » David, at the death of his child
And now he died, wherefore thus do I fast? shall I be able to yet turn him back? I go to him, and he will not turn back to me.
Fasting » Afflictions
And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom.
Then the king departed to his temple and passed the night fasting: and he brought not his concubines before him, and his sleep fled from him.
Topics on Afflictions
Afflictions As Blessings In Disguise
Job 5:17Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
Afflictions Of Ministers
Ezekiel 24:18And I shall speak to the people in the morning and my wife will die in the evening and I shall do in the morning as I was commanded.
Afflictions Of The Wicked
Exodus 14:4And I bound fast Pharaoh's heart, and he pursued after them; and I will be honored in Pharaoh and all his army; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they will do so.
Afflictions Of The Wicked, Examples Of
Exodus 9:14-15For in this time I send all my plagues into thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people: so that thou shalt know that there is not as I in all the earth.
Afflictions Resulting In Good
Genesis 50:20And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people.
Afflictions Terminating In Good
Genesis 50:20And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people.
Afflictions, Consolation During
Psalm 23:4Also if I shall go into the valley of the shadow of death, I shall not be afraid of evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they will comfort me.
Afflictions, In Christian Living
Mark 4:17And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized.
Afflictions, Prayer During
James 5:13Does any suffer among you? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him play on the harp.
Afflictions, Purpose Of
Isaiah 63:9In all their straits not an adversary, and: a messenger of his face saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he will take them up and bear them all the days forever.
Afflictions, Temporary
Psalm 30:5For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.
Beneficial Afflictions For Faith
Genesis 22:1-2And it shall be after these words, and God tried Abraham, and he will say to him, Abraham: and he will say, Behold, here I.
Beneficial Afflictions For Humility
Deuteronomy 8:3And 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.
God Appointed Afflictions
1 Thessalonians 3:3For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.
How Sin Comes With Afflictions
2 Samuel 12:14Only that despising, thou didst cause the enemies of Jehovah to despise by this thing, also the son born to thee, dying, shall die.
Severe Afflictions
2 Corinthians 8:2That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.
Sin Producing Afflictions
2 Corinthians 7:10For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.
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