Afflictions Made Beneficial

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• John 9:1-3 NT

  As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be…

• John 11:3 NT

  The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

• 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 21:18 NT

  Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

• 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.”

• Psalms 34:19 OT

  Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

• Psalms 34:20 OT

  He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

• 2 Corinthians 4:8-11 NT

  We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be…

• Psalms 119:71 OT

  It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

• 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.

• Micah 6:9 OT

  Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

• Deuteronomy 4:30 OT

  When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.

• Deuteronomy 4:31 OT

  For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

• Nehemiah 1:8 OT

  “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;

• Nehemiah 1:9 OT

  but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to…

• Psalms 78:34 OT

  When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

• Isaiah 10:20 OT

  It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

• Isaiah 10:21 OT

  A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

• 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.’

• Job 34:31 OT

  “For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

• Job 34:32 OT

  Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

• Ezekiel 14:10 OT

  They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;

• Ezekiel 14:11 OT

  that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”