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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 3:16, 17

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” / And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 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: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Samuel 7:14

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 3:1–26

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. / And this is what he said: / “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 5:6, 7, 17, 18

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

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 6:1–30

Then Job replied: / “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales. / For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 7:2–6

Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. / So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. / When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 9:18

He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 12:5

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 14:1, 22

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. / He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 16:6–14

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away? / Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. / You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 17:7–16

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow. / The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless. / Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 19:7–20

Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. / He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness. / He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 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: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 30:15–19

Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud. / And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me. / Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 33:19–22

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones, / so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food. / His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 36:8–12, 15

And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction, / then He tells them their deeds and how arrogantly they have transgressed. / He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 6:6, 7

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. / My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 18:4–6

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me. / The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. / In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 31:9–13

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well. / For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away. / Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 32:3, 4

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long. / For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 39:1–4

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.” / I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred. / My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 42:6, 7

O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar. / Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 55:4–8

My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me. / Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me. / I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 66:10–12

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver. / You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs. / You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 69:1–3, 20

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck. / I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me. / I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 73:10

So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 77:2–4

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted. / I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah / You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 80:5, 6

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears. / You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 88:3–18

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. / I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. / I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 89:32

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 90:10

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 102:3–11

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers. / My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread. / Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 107:4, 5, 10, 17–19

Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell. / They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them. / Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 109:22–24

For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me. / I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust. / My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 116:3

The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 141:7

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 143:3, 4

For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead. / My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 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: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 12:25

Anxiety weighs down the heart of a man, but a good word cheers it up.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 14:10, 13

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy. / Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 15:13, 15

A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit. / All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 17:3, 22

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts. / A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ecclesiastes 2:22, 23

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun? / 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: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ecclesiastes 7:2–4

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. / The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 24:1–16

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants— / people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor. / The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 26:16, 17

O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer. / As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 48:10

See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Lamentations 1:7, 12

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 she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall. / Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Lamentations 3:1–36

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. / He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. / Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Zechariah 13:9

This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 9:49

For everyone will be salted with fire.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 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: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Corinthians 1:8, 9

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. / Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Corinthians 4:7–12, 16, 17

Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us. / We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; / persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Corinthians 6:4–10

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities; / in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger; / in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Corinthians 11:23–30

Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death. / Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. / Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hebrews 12:6, 7, 9

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? / Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Peter 5:9

Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Revelation 3:19

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

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