60 Bible Verses about Suffering, Of The Innocent
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Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?
Behold, I shall cry violence, and shall I not be answered: I shall cry for help, and no judgment
Wherefore were not times hidden from the Almighty,? and they knowing him saw not his days.
For behold, they lay in wait for my soul: the strong will gather against me; not my transgression and not my sin, O Jehovah. Not iniquity, they will run and they will prepare: be aroused to meet me, and see.
Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?
Free among the dead, as they wounded lying down in the grave, whom thou no more didst remember them, and they were cut off by thy hand.
Remember now, who perished, he being innocent? and where were the upright cut off?
And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, he, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither did this sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God might be manifested in him.
And ye said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Hear ye now, O house of Israel; shall not my way make even? shall not your ways make hot even?
And his wife will say to him, Yet thou art holding fast upon thine integrity: praise God and die. And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.
And he is in one, and who shall turn him back? and his soul desired, and he will do. For he will finish my appointing: and many such with him. For this I shall tremble from his face: I shall consider, and I shall be afraid of him.
Shall he contending with the Almighty, instruct? he reproving God shall answer it
For I was envious at the foolish; I shall see the peace of the unjust
And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.
And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Also surely God will not do evil, and the Almighty will not pervert judgment
Behold, God is great, and we shall not know the number of his years, and it was not searched out
Make known to us what we shall say to him we shall not set in order from the face of darkness.
Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.
And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.
Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment?
Cast thy giving upon Jehovah and he will sustain thee: he will not give forever a wavering to the just one. And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the well of destruction: men of bloods and deceit shall not halve their days; and I will trust in thee.
And it will be in these many days, and the king of Egypt will die: and the sons of Israel will groan, from the work; and they will cry out, and their supplication will go up to God from the work.
The day I shall be afraid I will trust to thee. In God I will praise his word, in God I trusted; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me.
And I will sing thy strength; and I will rejoice at morning for thy mercy; for they wert a height to me, and a refuge in the day of straits to me.
Only, my soul be thou silent to God; for from him my hope.
They seeking my soul shall be confused and ashamed: they shall be turned away behind; and they desiring my evils, shall be ashamed.
And they will cry to Jehovah in straits to them, and he will deliver them from their distresses.
If it is, our God whom we served will be able to deliver us from the furnace of flaming fire, and from thy hand, O king, he will deliver us. And if not, it shall be made known to thee, O king, that to thy gods we serve not, and to the image of gold that thou didst set up we will not prostrate ourselves:
If the fig tree shall not blossom, and no produce in the vines; the work of the olive failed, and the fields made not food; and the sheep being cut off from the fold, and no oxen in the stalls. I will exult in Jehovah, I will rejoice in the God saving me.
Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;
Therefore let them also suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.
And God will see the sons of Israel, and God will know.
For Jehovah saw the affliction of Israel exceedingly bitter, and none shut up, and none left, and no helper to Israel.
Behold, the eye of Jehovah upon those fearing him, upon those hoping for his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to save them alive in famine.
Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
And thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt deride at all the nations.
For this, prophesy against the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, and to the torrents and to the valleys, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me, in my jealousy and in my wrath did I speak because ye bore the shame of the nations. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I lifted up my hand; if not the nations who are from round about to you, they shall bear their shame.
Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil.
And Jehovah turned back the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends: and Jehovah added all which was to Job, to the double. And there will come to him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all knowing him before; and they will eat bread with him in his house: and they will deplore for him, and they will comfort him upon all the evil which Jehovah brought upon him: and they will give to him tack one weight, and each one ring of gold. And Jehovah blessed the latter state of Job more than his beginning: and there will be to him fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor should the sun fall upon them, neither any heat.
And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed.
And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.
And I knew that the king of Egypt will not give you to go and not with a strong hand. And I sent my hand and struck Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst: and after that he will send you forth.
And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes. Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state. Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins.
Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn back for their threshing Gilead with threshing-sledges of iron.
Wo! to the city of bloods: all of it was filled with falsehood, with violence; the prey will not withdraw.
Thou wert satisfied with dishonor rather than honor: drink thou also and be uncircumcised: the cup of the right hand of Jehovah shall turn upon thee, and ignominy upon thy glory.
Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers: For I was hungry, and ye gave me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me.read more.
Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee? Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.
And if the just one with difficulty be saved, where shall the irreligious and sinful appear
Give back to her as also she gave back to you, and double to her double things according to her works: in the cup in which she mixed, mix to her double. As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief.
Bible Theasaurus
- Innocent (124 instances)