Afflictions
57 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Always Less than we Deserve
- Consequent Upon the Fall
- Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God
- Frequently Terminate in Good
- God Appoints
- God Determines the Continuance of
- God Dispenses, As he Will
- God Does not Willingly Send
- God Regulates the Measure of
- Man is Born To
- Often Arise from the Profession of the Gospel
- Often Severe
- Saints Appointed To
- Saints are to Expect
- Saints Have Joy Under
- Sin Produces
- Sin Visited With
- Tempered with Mercy
Always Less than we Deserve
- 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),
- Psalm 103:10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.
Consequent Upon the Fall
- Genesis 3:16–19 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.” …
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.
- Psalm 119:75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
- Proverbs 3:12 for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
- 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.
- Hebrews 12:6–7 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” …
- Revelation 3:19 Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Frequently Terminate in Good
- Genesis 50:20 As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this— to preserve the lives of many people.
- Exodus 1:11–12 So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. …
- Deuteronomy 8:15–16 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint. …
- Jeremiah 24:5–6 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. …
- Ezekiel 20:37 I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
God Appoints
- 2 Kings 6:33 While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
- Job 5:6 For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
- Job 5:17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Psalm 66:11 You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.
- Amos 3:6 If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
- Micah 6:9 The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.
God Determines the Continuance of
- Genesis 15:13–14 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. …
- Numbers 14:33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
- Isaiah 10:25 For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
- Jeremiah 29:10 For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
God Dispenses, As he Will
- Job 11:10 If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
- Isaiah 10:15 Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
- Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
God Does not Willingly Send
- Lamentations 3:33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
God Regulates the Measure of
- Psalm 80:5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
- Jeremiah 46:28 And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you …
Man is Born To
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.
- John 15:21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- 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. …
Often Severe
- Job 16:7–16 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. …
- Psalm 42:7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- Psalm 66:12 You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.
- Jonah 2:3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
- Revelation 7:14 “Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Saints Appointed To
- 1 Thessalonians 3:3 so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
Saints are to Expect
- 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!”
- 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.
Saints Have Joy Under
- Job 5:17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- 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.
Sin Produces
- Job 4:8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
- Job 20:11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
- Proverbs 1:31 So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Sin Visited With
- 2 Samuel 12:14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
- Psalm 89:30–32 If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments, …
- Isaiah 57:17 I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
- Acts 13:10–11 and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord? …
Tempered with Mercy
- Psalm 78:38–39 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath. …
- Psalm 106:43–46 Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity. …
- Isaiah 30:18–21 Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him. …
- Lamentations 3:32 Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
- Micah 7:7–9 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. …
- Nahum 1:12 This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.
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Afflictions and AdversitiesThe Afflictions of the WickedAfflictions and Adversities of the WickedAfflictions and Adversities of SaintsAfflictions Made BeneficialAfflictions Made Beneficial in Trying Our Faith and Obedience
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.