9 Bible Verses about Despair
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For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which came upon us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.
so that, on the other hand, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest such a one should be swallowed up in too much sorrow.
But we have in ourselves the sentence of death, that we may not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead;
who delivered us from so great a death, and does still deliver us: in whom we have confidence, that he will continue to deliver us,
For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more abundantly, indeed, for you in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.
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Despair » General references to
And in those days men will seek for death, and shall not find it; and they will desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
Therefore he purchased a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And the fifth angel poured out his cup on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was filled with darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain; and they spoke impiously against the God of heaven because of their pains, and be cause of their sores; and they repented not of their works.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
We are pressed on all sides, yet not restrained; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
and said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6And in those days men will seek for death, and shall not find it; and they will desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.
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