Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Isaiah 26:9 OT

  With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

• Isaiah 27:9 OT

  Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense…

• Jeremiah 2:27 OT

  who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’

• Jeremiah 22:22 OT

  The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

• Jeremiah 22:23 OT

  Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

• Jeremiah 31:19 OT

  Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

• Lamentations 3:27 OT

  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

• Lamentations 3:28 OT

  Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

• Ezekiel 20:43 OT

  There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

• Ezekiel 6:9 OT

  Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then…

• Hosea 2:6 OT

  Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

• Hosea 2:7 OT

  She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

• Hosea 5:15 OT

  I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

• Romans 5:3 NT

  Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

• Romans 5:4 NT

  and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

• Romans 8:17 NT

  and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

• Romans 8:28 NT

  We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

• Philippians 1:12-14 NT

  Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News, so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,…

• Philippians 1:19 NT

  For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

• James 1:2-4 NT

  Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

• James 1:12 NT

  Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

• 1 Peter 1:7 NT

  that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

• Genesis 22:12 OT

  He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

• Genesis 22:16-18 OT

  and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens,…