6 Bible Verses about Resignation

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John 18:11

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has offered me?"

Acts 21:14

So as he would not yield, we gave up urging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"

Acts 21:11-14

He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' " When we heard this, we and the people there all begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."read more.
So as he would not yield, we gave up urging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated. Three times I have prayed to the Lord about this, begging that it might leave me, and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.read more.
That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

Philippians 4:11-12

Not that I have anything to complain of, for I have learned how to be contented with the condition I am in. I know how to live humbly and I know how to enjoy plenty. I have learned the secret, in any and all conditions, of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of going without.

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Afflictions » Resignation » Resignation in trials, examples of » Eli

Resignation » Resignation in trials, examples of » David

Resignation » Christ set an example of

John 18:11

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has offered me?"

Matthew 26:39-44

And he went on a little way, and threw himself on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me. Yet not as I please but as you do!" When he went back to the disciples he found them asleep. And he said to Peter, "Then were you not able to watch with me for one hour? You must all watch, and pray that you may not be exposed to trial! One's spirit is eager, but flesh and blood are weak!" read more.
He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it cannot pass by me without my drinking it, your will be done!" When he came back he found them asleep again, for they could hardly keep their eyes open. And he left them and went away again and prayed a third time, in the same words as before.

Resignation » Should be exhibited in » Submission to the will of God

Resignation » Should be exhibited in » The prospect of death

2 Corinthians 4:16-1

So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day. For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison, because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal. read more.
For I know that if this earthly tent that I live in is taken down, God will provide me a building in heaven to live in, not built by human hands but eternal.

Resignation » Motives to » Our own sinfulness

Resignation » Commanded

Resignation » Resignation in trials, examples of » Christ

John 18:11

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has offered me?"

Resignation » Should be exhibited in » Loss of goods

Resignation » Should be exhibited in » Loss of children

Resignation » Motives to » God's wisdom

Romans 11:32-33

For God has made all men prisoners of disobedience so as to have mercy upon them all. How inexhaustible God's resources, wisdom, and knowledge are! How unfathomable his decisions are, and how untraceable his ways!

Resignation » Should be exhibited in » Submission to the sovereignty of God in his purposes

Romans 9:20-21

On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?" Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones?

Resignation » Exemplified » David

Resignation » Exemplified » Aaron

Resignation » Exemplified » hezekiah

Resignation » Exemplified » jacob

Resignation » Motives to » God's justice

Resignation » The wicked are devoid of

Resignation » Exhortation to

Resignation » Should be exhibited in » Chastisements

Resignation » Exemplified » israelites

Resignation » Exemplified » Peter

2 Peter 1:14

for I know that I must soon put it away, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

Resignation » Motives to » God's faithfulness

Resignation » Motives to » God's love

Resignation » Motives to » God, greatness of

Resignation » Resignation in trials, examples of » Paul's friends

Acts 21:14

So as he would not yield, we gave up urging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!"

Resignation » Should be exhibited in » Bodily suffering

Resignation » Exemplified » Paul

Resignation » Exemplified » Stephen

Resignation » Resignation in trials, examples of » Job

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