9 Bible Verses about Despair
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I am hard pressed on every side, but never cut off: perplexed, but not driven to despair;
For I do not want you, brothers, to misunderstand the distress that I experienced in Asia, for I was so utterly and unendurably crushed, that I actually despaired of life itself.
and so you must now turn around and forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by his remorse.
Why, I felt in my heart that the end must be death. That was to keep me from relying on myself instead of on God, who can even raise the dead.
So deadly was the peril from which he saved me, as he will save me again! It is on him that I have set my hope that he will save me again.
For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.
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Despair » General references to
In those days men will seek death and never find it. They will want to die, but death will fly from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
(This man bought a piece of land with the money paid him for his treachery, and his body swelled up and burst open in the middle and all his vitals poured out.
And he threw down the silver and left the Temple and went off and hung himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
The fifth emptied his bowl upon the animal's throne, and its kingdom was plunged in darkness, and men gnawed their tongues in anguish and reviled the God of heaven for their sufferings and sores, but they would not repent of what they had done.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
I am hard pressed on every side, but never cut off: perplexed, but not driven to despair; routed, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
And they said to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and conceal us from the sight of him who is seated on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
And he threw down the silver and left the Temple and went off and hung himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death and never find it. They will want to die, but death will fly from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.
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