Afflictions and Adversities

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• John 9:2 NT

  His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

• John 9:3 NT

  Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

• John 11:4 NT

  But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

• John 21:19 NT

  Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

• 2 Corinthians 1:4-6 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. For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also…

• 2 Corinthians 4:11 NT

  For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

• 2 Corinthians 12:7 NT

  By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

• Philippians 1:29 NT

  Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

• Philippians 1:30 NT

  having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:4 NT

  so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:5 NT

  This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

• Hebrews 2:10-18 NT

  For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are…

• Hebrews 5:8 NT

  though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

• Hebrews 5:9 NT

  Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

• Hebrews 12:5-11 NT

  You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son…

• Job 4:5 OT

  But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

• Job 9:16-35 OT

  If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice. For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause. He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. If…

• Psalms 22:1 OT

  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

• Psalms 22:2 OT

  My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

• Proverbs 24:10 OT

  If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

• Lamentations 3:39 OT

  Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

• Matthew 27:46 NT

  About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

• Mark 15:34 NT

  At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

• Luke 18:1 NT

  He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,