Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Psalms 66:12 OT

  You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

• Jonah 2:3 OT

  For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

• Revelation 7:14 NT

  I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

• Ezra 9:13 OT

  “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

• Psalms 103:10 OT

  He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

• Genesis 50:20 OT

  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

• Exodus 1:11 OT

  Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

• Exodus 1:12 OT

  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 8:15 OT

  who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

• Deuteronomy 8:16 OT

  who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

• Jeremiah 24:5 OT

  “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

• Jeremiah 24:6 OT

  For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

• Ezekiel 20:37 OT

  “I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

• Psalms 78:38 OT

  But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

• Psalms 78:39 OT

  He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

• Psalms 106:43-46 OT

  He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry. He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to…

• Isaiah 30:18-21 OT

  Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. For the people will dwell in Zion at…

• Lamentations 3:32 OT

  For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

• Micah 7:7-9 OT

  But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me. I will bear the…

• Nahum 1:12 OT

  Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

• John 16:33 NT

  I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

• Acts 14:22 NT

  strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

• Acts 20:23 NT

  except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

• Acts 24:1-27 NT

  After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul. When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much…