Affliction
What
is affliction?
pain, suffering.
Dictionary
a
cause of persistent pain or distress, great suffering.
felt
empathy with their affliction, the state of being afflicted by something that causes
suffering.
2
Corinthians 4;17
For
our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far
outweighs them all.
Leviticus
26;21
“‘If
you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions
seven times over, as your sins deserve.
2
Chronicles 6;29
and
when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel—being aware of
their afflictions and pains, and spreading out their hands toward this
temple.
Job
10;15
If I
am guilty—woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am
full of shame and drowned in my affliction.
Job
36;8
But
if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction.
Job
36;15
But
those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.
Job
36;21
Beware
of turning to evil, which you seem to prefer to affliction.
Psalm
25;18
Look
on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.
Psalm
31;7
I
will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and
knew the anguish of my soul.
Psalm
31;10
My
life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because
of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.
Psalm
107;17
Some
became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction
because of their iniquities.
Psalm
107;41
But
he lifted the needy out of their affliction and increased their families
like flocks.
Psalm
119;92
If
your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Ecclesiastes
5;17
All
their days they eat in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and
anger.
Isaiah
30;20
Although
the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.
Isaiah
48;10
See,
I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Lamentations
1;3
After
affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among
the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.
Lamentations
1;7
In
the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the
treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands,
there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her
destruction.
Lamentations
1;9
Her
filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was
astounding; there was none to comfort her. “Look, Lord, on my affliction,
for the enemy has triumphed.”
Lamentations
3;1
I am
the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.
Lamentations
3;19
I
remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
Lamentations
3;33
For
he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.
Romans
12;12
Be
joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Colossians
1;24
[ Paul’s
Labor for the Church ] Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I
fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions,
for the sake of his body, which is the church.
2
Corinthians 4;17
For
our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far
outweighs them all.
Romans
12;12
Be
joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Colossians
1;24
[ Paul’s
Labor for the Church ] Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I
fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions,
for the sake of his body, which is the church.
Revelation
2;9
I
know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about
the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of
Satan.
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