Afflictions Made Beneficial

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Revelation 2:10 NT

  Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the…

• Deuteronomy 8:3 OT

  He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s…

• 2 Chronicles 7:13 OT

  “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• 2 Chronicles 7:14 OT

  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Lamentations 3:19 OT

  Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

• Lamentations 3:20 OT

  My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

• 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.

• Ecclesiastes 7:2 OT

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 7:3 OT

  Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

• Isaiah 1:25 OT

  I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.

• Isaiah 1:26 OT

  I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

• Isaiah 48:10 OT

  Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

• Jeremiah 9:6 OT

  Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:7 OT

  Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

• Zechariah 13:9 OT

  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…

• Malachi 3:2 OT

  “But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

• Malachi 3:3 OT

  and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

• Psalms 40:1 OT

  I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

• Romans 5:3 NT

  Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

• James 1:3 NT

  knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

• 1 Peter 2:20 NT

  For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

• 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.

• Hebrews 12:10 NT

  For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

• Hebrews 12:11 NT

  All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.