9 Bible Verses about Despair
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On every side I am ever hard-pressed, but never hemmed in; always perplexed, but never to the point of despair;
For I do not want you to be uninformed about the sorrow that I suffered in Asia, because I was so crushed beyond any power to endure that I was in dire despair of life itself.
always being persecuted, but not deserted; always getting a knockdown, but never a knockout;
so you must do the opposite, freely forgive and comfort him, to keep him from being overwhelmed by his excessive sadness.
Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.
He saved me from a death so horrible, and He will save me again! He it is on whom I have set my hope that He will still save me,
For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.
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Despair » General references to
In those days people will look for death but will not find it, they will long to die but death will flee from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
(This man bought a piece of land with the money which he took for his treachery, and he fell there face downward and his body broke in two, and all his intestines poured out.
Then he tossed the money into the temple and left, and went off and hanged himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
Then the fifth angel emptied his bowl upon the throne of the wild beast, and his kingdom was shrouded in darkness, and men in agony gnawed their tongues, and cursed the God of heaven because of 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
On every side I am ever hard-pressed, but never hemmed in; always perplexed, but never to the point of despair; always being persecuted, but not deserted; always getting a knockdown, but never a knockout;
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
Then he tossed the money into the temple and left, and went off and hanged himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6In those days people will look for death but will not find it, they will long to die but death will flee from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has taken hold of you but what is common to human nature. And God is to be trusted not to let you be tempted beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to make a way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.
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