Affliction, Consolation Under

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Romans 15:4 NT

  For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

• Isaiah 40:1 OT

  “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

• Isaiah 40:2 OT

  “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

• 1 Corinthians 14:3 NT

  But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

• 2 Corinthians 1:4 NT

  who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

• 2 Corinthians 1:6 NT

  But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

• Psalms 71:21 OT

  Increase my honor and comfort me again.

• Isaiah 66:11 OT

  that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”

• Hebrews 6:18 NT

  that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

• Isaiah 12:1 OT

  In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

• Isaiah 49:13 OT

  Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains, for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

• Psalms 119:8 OT

  I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:18 NT

  Therefore comfort one another with these words.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:11 NT

  Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:14 NT

  We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

• Psalms 69:20 OT

  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

• Ecclesiastes 4:1 OT

  Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

• Lamentations 1:2 OT

  She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

• Psalms 51:17 OT

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

• Isaiah 1:18 OT

  “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

• Isaiah 61:1 OT

  The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

• Micah 7:18 OT

  Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

• Micah 7:19 OT

  He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

• Luke 4:18 NT

  “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are…