Afflictions Made Beneficial

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Acts 8:3 NT

  But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

• Acts 8:4 NT

  Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

• Acts 11:19-21 NT

  They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene,…

• Philippians 1:12 NT

  Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

• 2 Timothy 2:9 NT

  in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

• 2 Timothy 2:10 NT

  Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

• 2 Timothy 4:16 NT

  At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

• 2 Timothy 4:17 NT

  But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

• Genesis 42:21 OT

  They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

• Genesis 45:5 OT

  Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

• Genesis 45:7 OT

  God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

• Genesis 45:8 OT

  So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 8:5 OT

  You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

• 2 Kings 22:19 OT

  because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept…

• 2 Chronicles 32:25 OT

  But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 32:26 OT

  Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

• 2 Chronicles 33:12 OT

  When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

• Jonah 2:7 OT

  “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

• Luke 15:21 NT

  The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’