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Afflicted Saints: should Keep the Pious Resolutions Made During Afflictions Psalm 66:13–15

I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You— / the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress. / I will offer You fatlings as burnt offerings, with the fragrant smoke of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. Selah

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Affliction Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

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Affliction 2 Corinthians 12:9

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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Affliction Romans 8:18

I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.

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Affliction 1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

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Affliction Romans 5:3, 4

Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; / perseverance, character; and character, hope.

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Affliction Psalm 119:71

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

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Affliction 2 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

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Affliction Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

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Affliction Romans 8:28

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

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Affliction James 5:11

See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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Afflictions and Adversities in Pharaoh and the Egyptians Exodus 9:14, 15

Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. / For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.

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Afflictions and Adversities in Pharaoh and the Egyptians Exodus 14:24, 25

At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion. / He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Comparatively Light Acts 20:23

I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Comparatively Light Acts 24:1

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Comparatively Light Romans 8:18

I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Comparatively Light 2 Corinthians 4:17

For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: End in Joy and Blessedness Psalm 126:5, 6

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. / He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: End in Joy and Blessedness Isaiah 61:2, 3

to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, / to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: End in Joy and Blessedness Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: End in Joy and Blessedness 1 Peter 4:13, 14

But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory. / If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God Deuteronomy 8:5

So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God Proverbs 3:12

for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God 1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God Hebrews 12:6, 7

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” / Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God Revelation 3:19

Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Joy Under Job 5:17

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Joy Under James 5:11

See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Often Arise from the Profession of the Gospel Matthew 24:9

Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Often Arise from the Profession of the Gospel John 15:21

But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Often Arise from the Profession of the Gospel 2 Timothy 3:11, 12

my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. / Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Temporary Psalm 30:5

For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Temporary Psalm 103:9

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Temporary Isaiah 54:7, 8

“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. / In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Temporary John 16:20

Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Temporary 1 Peter 1:6

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Temporary 1 Peter 5:10

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: To be Expected John 16:33

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

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Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: To be Expected Acts 14:22

strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are for Examples to Others Psalm 64:7–9

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. / They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads. / Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are for Examples to Others Zephaniah 3:6, 7

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant. / I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are for Examples to Others 1 Corinthians 10:5, 11

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. / Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are for Examples to Others 2 Peter 2:6

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Ineffectual for Their Conversion Exodus 9:30

But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.”

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Ineffectual for Their Conversion Isaiah 9:13

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Ineffectual for Their Conversion Jeremiah 2:30

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Ineffectual for Their Conversion Haggai 2:17

I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Multiplied Deuteronomy 31:17

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Multiplied Job 20:5

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Multiplied Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Multiplied Psalm 32:10

Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are often Judicially Sent Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are often Judicially Sent Psalm 107:17

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are often Judicially Sent Jeremiah 30:15

Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Continual Job 15:20

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Continual Ecclesiastes 2:23

Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Continual Isaiah 32:10

In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Frequently Harden Nehemiah 9:28, 29

But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion. / You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Frequently Harden Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: God Holds in Derision Psalm 37:13

but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: God Holds in Derision Proverbs 1:26, 27

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, / when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: God is Glorified In Exodus 14:4

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: God is Glorified In Ezekiel 38:22, 23

I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. / I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of Proverbs 1:30, 31

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. / So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of Ezekiel 24:13

Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of Amos 4:6–12

“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. / “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. / People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of Zechariah 7:11, 12

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. / They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of Revelation 2:21

Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of Revelation 22:1

Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Often Sudden Psalm 73:19

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Often Sudden Proverbs 6:15

Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Often Sudden Isaiah 30:13

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Often Sudden Revelation 18:10

In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Produce Slavish Fear Job 15:24

Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Produce Slavish Fear Psalm 73:19

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Produce Slavish Fear Jeremiah 49:3, 5

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials. / Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Saints should not be Alarmed At Proverbs 3:25, 26

Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked, / for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Sometimes Humble Them 1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Their Persecution of Saints, a Cause of Deuteronomy 30:7

Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Their Persecution of Saints, a Cause of Psalm 55:19

God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Their Persecution of Saints, a Cause of Zechariah 2:9

I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”

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Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Their Persecution of Saints, a Cause of 2 Thessalonians 1:6

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Ahaz 2 Chronicles 28:22, 23

In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD. / Since Damascus had defeated him, he sacrificed to their gods and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Ahaz, Etc 2 Chronicles 28:5–8, 22

So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force. / For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. / Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the governor of the palace, and Elkanah the second to the king.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Ahaziah 2 Kings 1:1–4

After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. / Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.” / But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’

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Afflictions and Adversities: Always Less than Deserved Ezra 9:13

After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

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Afflictions and Adversities: Always Less than Deserved Psalm 103:10

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Asa 2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of 1 Kings 8:33, 35, 47–53

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple, / When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them, / and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Deuteronomy 4:30, 31

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice. / For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Deuteronomy 30:1, 2

“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, / and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of 2 Chronicles 6:28–31

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come, / then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple— / be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Job 5:6–11, 17

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. / Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. / However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Job 23:10

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Psalm 94:12, 13

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law, / to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Proverbs 3:11, 12

My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke; / for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Hebrews 12:5

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Ecclesiastes 7:2, 3

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart. / Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Isaiah 19:20, 22

It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them. / And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

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