9 Bible Verses about Despair
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We are afflicted on every side, yet not reduced to extremities; under difficulties, yet not in despair;
For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the tribulation which came to us in Asia, that above measure we have been burdened beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life:
Wherefore, on the contrary, ye rather ought to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up with excess of sorrow.
for we ourselves, in ourselves have received the sentence of death, that we should have no confidence in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.
Who from so imminent a prospect of death hath delivered us, and still delivers: in whom we trust also that he will yet deliver us:
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and peculiarly towards you.
From Thematic Bible
Despair » General references to
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall earnestly desire to die, and death shall fly from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
This man indeed accordingly purchased a spot of ground with the wages of iniquity; and projected forward, he burst in the midst, and all his bowels fell out.
And throwing down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed; and going out, hanged himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And the fifth angel poured out his vase upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness, and they gnawed their own tongues from anguish, and they blasphemed the God of heaven, in the midst of their anguish, and of their ulcers, and 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 afflicted on every side, yet not reduced to extremities; under difficulties, yet not in despair; persecuted, yet not abandoned; 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 who sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
And throwing down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed; and going out, hanged himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall earnestly desire to die, and death shall fly from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.
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