Afflictions and Adversities
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Afflictions and Adversities’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 193–216 of 862 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Psalms 143:4 OT
Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
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My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;
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Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
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Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
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The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
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Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
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A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
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All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
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The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
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A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
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For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
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It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made…
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Isaiah 1:6 OT
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
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Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress;…
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Isaiah 26:16 OT
Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
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Isaiah 26:17 OT
Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.
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Isaiah 48:10 OT
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
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Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked…
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“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
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I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long. He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has…
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I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my…
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Mark 9:49 NT
For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
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John 15:2 NT
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.