Consolation Under Affliction
55 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- Christ is the Author and Giver of
- God is the Author and Giver of
- Pray For
- Promised
- Saints should Administer to Each Other
- The Holy Spirit is the Author and Giver of
- Through the Holy Scriptures
- To the Persecuted
- To the Poor
- To the Sick
- To the Tempted
- To the Troubled in Mind
- To Those Deserted by Friends
- To Those Who Mourn for Sin
- Under the Infirmities of Age
Christ is the Author and Giver of
- Isaiah 61:2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
- John 14:18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
- 2 Corinthians 1:5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
God is the Author and Giver of
- Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
- Romans 15:5 Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,
- 2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
- 2 Corinthians 7:6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
- Colossians 1:11 being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope, …
Pray For
- Psalm 119:82 My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
Promised
- Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
- Isaiah 51:12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- Isaiah 66:13 As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
- Ezekiel 14:22–23 Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it — sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be comforted regarding the disaster I have brought upon …
- Hosea 2:14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
- Zechariah 1:17 Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
Saints should Administer to Each Other
- 1 Thessalonians 4:18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
The Holy Spirit is the Author and Giver of
- John 14:16–17 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever — …
- John 15:26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father — He will testify about Me.
- John 16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
- Acts 9:31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
Through the Holy Scriptures
- Psalm 119:50 This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
- Psalm 119:76 May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.
- Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
To the Persecuted
- Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
To the Poor
- Psalm 10:14 But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalm 34:6 This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
- Psalm 34:9–10 Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing. …
To the Sick
- Psalm 41:3 The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
To the Tempted
- Romans 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- 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.
- 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.
- James 1:12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
- James 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- 2 Peter 2:9 if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
- Revelation 2:10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
To the Troubled in Mind
- Psalm 42:5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
- Psalm 94:19 When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.
- John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.
- John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.
- 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.
- John 16:22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
To Those Deserted by Friends
- Psalm 27:10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
- Psalm 41:9–12 Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. …
- John 14:18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
- John 15:18–19 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. …
To Those Who Mourn for Sin
- Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
- Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
- Isaiah 40:1–2 “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God. …
- Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Micah 7:18–19 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance — who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? …
- Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
Under the Infirmities of Age
- Psalm 71:9 Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
- Psalm 71:18 Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.