9 Bible Verses about Despair
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For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;
so that on the contrary ye ought rather to forgive, and console him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead;
who delivered us from such peril of death, and is delivering; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us,
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
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Despair » General references to
And in those days men will seek death, and shall not find it; and will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
Now this man purchased a field with the wages of the iniquity; and falling headlong he burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and withdrew; and went away and hanged himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And the fifth poured out his vial upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and because of their sores; and they repented not of their deeds.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
being troubled on every side, yet not distressed; 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 they say to the mountains and the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and withdrew; and went away and hanged himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6And in those days men will seek death, and shall not find it; and will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
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