Benefits Of Afflictions And Adversities

Deuteronomy 30:1

¹ And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

Deuteronomy 30:2

² And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

Deuteronomy 4:30

³⁰ When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

Deuteronomy 4:31

³¹ For the LORD thy God is a merciful God; he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

1 Kings 8:33

³³ When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:

1 Kings 8:35

³⁵ When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

1 Kings 8:47

⁴⁷ Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

1 Kings 8:48

⁴⁸ And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

1 Kings 8:49

⁴⁹ Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

1 Kings 8:50

⁵⁰ And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

1 Kings 8:51

⁵¹ For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

1 Kings 8:52

⁵² That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.

1 Kings 8:53

⁵³ For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.

2 Chronicles 6:28

²⁸ If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

2 Chronicles 6:29

²⁹ Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

2 Chronicles 6:30

³⁰ Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:

2 Chronicles 6:31

³¹ That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

Job 5:6

⁶ Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Job 5:7

⁷ Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks sparks fly upward.

Job 5:8

⁸ I would seek seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Job 5:9

⁹ Which doeth great things and unsearchable; unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

Job 5:10

¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

Job 5:11

¹¹ To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

Job 5:17

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

Job 23:10

¹⁰ But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalms 94:12

¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

Psalms 94:13

¹³ That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Proverbs 3:11

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

Proverbs 3:12

¹² For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

³ Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Isaiah 26:9

⁹ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Isaiah 27:9

⁹ By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Isaiah 19:20

²⁰ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

Isaiah 19:22

²² And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

Jeremiah 2:27

²⁷ Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

Jeremiah 22:22

²² The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Jeremiah 22:23

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Jeremiah 31:19

¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Lamentations 3:27

²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Lamentations 3:28

²⁸ He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Ezekiel 6:9

⁹ And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 20:37

³⁷ And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

Ezekiel 20:43

⁴³ And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

Hosea 2:6

⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Hosea 2:7

⁷ And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

Hosea 5:15

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

Romans 5:3

³ And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Romans 5:4

⁴ And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Romans 8:17

¹⁷ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Romans 8:28

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

2 Corinthians 4:17

¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Philippians 1:12

¹² But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

Philippians 1:13

¹³ So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

Philippians 1:14

¹⁴ And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

Philippians 1:19

¹⁹ For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:5

⁵ And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

James 1:2

² My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

James 1:3

³ Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James 1:4

⁴ But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. nothing.

James 1:12

¹² Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

1 Peter 1:7

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:

1 Peter 4:14

¹⁴ If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

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