Afflictions Made Beneficial

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Judges 4:3 OT

  The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.

• Jeremiah 31:18 OT

  “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

• Lamentations 2:17-19 OT

  Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries. Their…

• Hosea 5:14 OT

  For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

• 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.”

• Jonah 2:1 OT

  Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

• Job 36:8 OT

  If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

• Job 36:9 OT

  then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

• Psalms 119:67 OT

  Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

• Luke 15:16-18 NT

  He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! I will get up and go…

• Numbers 21:7 OT

  The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

• Psalms 32:5 OT

  I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

• Psalms 51:3 OT

  For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

• Psalms 51:5 OT

  Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

• Job 23:10 OT

  But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

• Psalms 66:10 OT

  For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

• Proverbs 17:3 OT

  The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

• Genesis 22:1 OT

  After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 22:2 OT

  He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

• Hebrews 11:17 NT

  By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

• Exodus 15:23-25 OT

  When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah. The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him…

• Deuteronomy 8:2 OT

  You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

• 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;

• 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—