9 Bible Verses about Despair
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in everything being troubled, but not in difficulties incorrigible; being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss;
For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction taking place in Asia, because we were burthened exceedingly, above our power, so that we despaired even of living:
being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;
so on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one may be swallowed up with excessive grief.
but we had the answer of death in ourselves, in order that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raised the dead:
who delivered us from so great a death, and will deliver: in whom he have hope that he will also yet deliver;
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.
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Despair » General references to
And in those days men will seek death, and will not find it; and they will desire to die, and death flies from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
Then indeed he purchased a field by the reward of iniquity, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels burst out;
And throwing down the money in the temple, he departed; and having gone away hung himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was filled with darkness; and they gnawed their tongues from the pain, and they blasphemed the God of the heavens on account of their pains and on account of their sores, and did not repent 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
in everything being troubled, but not in difficulties incorrigible; being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss; being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the one sitting upon the throne, and the wrath of the Lamb:
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
And throwing down the money in the temple, he departed; and having gone away hung himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6And in those days men will seek death, and will not find it; and they will desire to die, and death flies from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has overtaken you, except that which is human: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also make a way of escape, in order that you may be able to bear it.
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