9 Bible Verses about Despair
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being afflicted on every side, but not oppressed; perplexed, but not in despair;
For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befel us in Asia, that we were exceedingly pressed above our strength, so that we despaired even of life:
So that on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and comfort him, least such a one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
but we had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver, in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us:
For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and pious sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and especially towards you.
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Despair » General references to
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
(Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling down on his face, burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out:
And he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened, and they gnawed their tongues for pain. And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they 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
being afflicted on every side, but not oppressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
and said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall upon 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 threw down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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