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60 Bible Verses About Adversity

    Rank 31 to 60 Most Popular Bible Verses About Adversity

    Ecclesiastes 10:10

    10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.”

    Isaiah 58:10-11

    10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.”

    Related Themes: Homelessness Serving The Poor Benevolence Serving Others Service

    Hebrews 12:2

    2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

    Related Themes: Holiness Joy Perseverance Patience Faith

    1 Corinthians 15:26

    26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

    Related Themes: Death Afterlife Tears Rejection Murder

    Isaiah 30:20

    20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:”

    Related Themes: Water

    Isaiah 40:2

    2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.”

    Related Themes: Omnipotence Creation

    Job 2:10

    10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.”

    Related Themes: Complaining Benevolence

    James 1:13

    13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

    Related Themes: Lust Holiness Lust Coveting

    Hebrews 11:1

    1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

    Related Themes: Hope Faith Telling The Truth Strangers Frustration

    Mark 11:23

    23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”

    Related Themes: Doubt Heart Expectations Faith

    Ephesians 3:20

    20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”

    Related Themes: Omnipotence Creativity Greatness Hope Humility

    Psalm 27:1-3

    1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.”

    Related Themes: Life Strength Fear Reputation Light

    Exodus 14:14

    14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.”

    Related Themes: Frustration Patience Rest Arguing Help

    2 Corinthians 4:16-17

    16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;”

    Related Themes: Hope Life Suffering Life Greatness

    Ecclesiastes 7:14

    14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.”

    Related Themes: Life Business Suffering Joy Prosperity

    1 Corinthians 14:33

    33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”

    Related Themes: Confusion Discernment Peace Chaos Bullying

    Psalm 119:67

    67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.”

    Related Themes: Suffering

    Titus 3:9-11

    9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”

    Related Themes: Arguing Politics Division Debating Quarreling

    1 Corinthians 10:13

    13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

    Related Themes: Lust Self-Control Addiction Strength Temptation

    Hebrews 9:27

    27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”

    Related Themes: Afterlife Hell Omnipresence Omnipotence Reaping

    Isaiah 35:4

    4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.”

    Related Themes: Nervousness Fear Retribution Letting Go Anxiety

    Isaiah 41:10

    10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”

    Related Themes: Loneliness Frustration Hope Strength Healing

    Ecclesiastes 7:2-4

    2 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 will lay it to his heart.3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”

    Isaiah 65:8

    8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.”

    Related Themes: Lust

    Exodus 3:7

    7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;”

    Daniel 1:1-10

    1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes;4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.”

    Related Themes: Earth Food

    Colossians 1:11-12

    11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:”

    Related Themes: Patience Perseverance Endurance Joy Power

    Psalm 34:17

    17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”

    Related Themes: Depression Homelessness Rejection Deliverance Hopelessness

    Colossians 1:24

    24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:”

    Related Themes: Suffering Church Working Together

    1 Peter 1:6-7

    6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”

    Related Themes: Suffering Gold Seasons Hope Patience

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