Nave’s Topical Bible
Afflictions and Adversities
681 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- MISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICS
- God regulates the measure of afflictions
- Determines the continuance of
Genesis 15:13-14; Numbers 14:33; Isaiah 10:25; Jeremiah 29:10
- Does not willingly send
- Man is born to
- Saints appointed to
- Consequent upon the fall
- Sin produces
- Sinners corrected by
2 Samuel 12:14; Psalms 89:30-32; Isaiah 57:17; Acts 13:10-11
- Often severe
Job 16:7-16; Psalms 42:7; Psalms 66:12; Jonah 2:3; Revelation 7:14
- Always less than deserved
- Results of, good
Genesis 50:20; Exodus 1:11-12; Deuteronomy 8:15-16; Jeremiah 24:5-6; Ezekiel 20:37
- Tempered with mercy
Psalms 78:38-39; Psalms 106:43-46; Isaiah 30:18-21; Lamentations 3:32; Micah 7:7-9; Nahum 1:12
- OF SAINTS
- To be expected
- Comparatively light
- Temporary
Psalms 30:5; Psalms 103:9; Isaiah 54:7-8; John 16:20; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 5:10
- Joy under
- End in joy and blessedness
- Often arise from the profession of the gospel
- Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God
Deuteronomy 8:5; Psalms 119:75; Proverbs 3:12; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Hebrews 12:6-7; Revelation 3:19
- OF THE WICKED
- God is glorified in
- God holds in derision
- Are multiplied
- Continual
- Often sudden
- Are often judicially sent
- Are for examples to others
Psalms 64:7-9; Zephaniah 3:6-7; 1 Corinthians 10:5,11; 2 Peter 2:6
- Are ineffectual for their conversion
- Their persecution of saints, a cause of
Deuteronomy 30:7; Psalms 55:19; Zechariah 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 1:6
- Impenitence is a cause of
Proverbs 1:30-31; Ezekiel 24:13; Amos 4:6-12; Zechariah 7:11-12; Revelation 2:21; Revelation 22
- Sometimes humble them
- Frequently harden
- Produce slavish fear
- Saints should not be alarmed at
- Exemplified
- In Pharaoh and the Egyptians
- Ahaziah
- Gehazi
- Jehoram
- Uzziah
- Ahaz, etc
- FORSAKEN BY FRIENDS IN: INSTANCES OF
- David
- Jesus
- Paul
- NATIONAL LESSONS FROM
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Genesis 3:16-17; Deuteronomy 8:5; 2 Samuel 7:14; Job 3:1-26; Job 5:6-7,17-18; Job 6:1-30; Job 7:2-6; Job 9:18; Job 12:5; Job 14:1,22; Job 16:6-14; Job 17:7-16; Job 19:7-20; Job 23:10; Job 30:15-19; Job 33:19-22; Job 36:8-12,15; Psalms 6:6-7; Psalms 18:4-6; Psalms 31:9-13; Psalms 32:3-4; Psalms 39:1-4; Psalms 42:6-7; Psalms 55:4-8; Psalms 66:10-12; Psalms 69:1-3,20; Psalms 73:10; Psalms 77:2-4; Psalms 80:5-6; Psalms 88:3-18; Psalms 89:32; Psalms 90:10; Psalms 102:3-11; Psalms 107:4-5,10,17-19; Psalms 109:22-24; Psalms 116:3; Psalms 141:7; Psalms 143:3-4; Proverbs 3:11-12; Proverbs 12:25; Proverbs 13:12; Proverbs 14:10,13; Proverbs 15:13,15; Proverbs 17:3,22; Proverbs 18:14; Ecclesiastes 2:22-23; Ecclesiastes 7:2-4; Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 24:1-16; Isaiah 26:16-17; Isaiah 48:10; Lamentations 1:7,12; Lamentations 3:1-36; Zechariah 13:9; Mark 9:49; John 15:2; John 16:33; 2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 2 Corinthians 4:7-12,16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:4-10; 2 Corinthians 11:23-30; Hebrews 12:6-7,9; 1 Peter 5:9; Revelation 3:19
See PENITENTS
See PERSECUTION
See POOR
See SORROW
See TEMPTATION
- BENEFITS OF
1 Kings 8:33,35,47-53; Deuteronomy 4:30-31; Deuteronomy 30:1-2; 2 Chronicles 6:28-31; Job 5:6-11,17; Job 23:10; Psalms 94:12-13; Proverbs 3:11-12; Hebrews 12:5; Ecclesiastes 7:2-3; Isaiah 19:20,22; Isaiah 26:9; Isaiah 27:9; Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 22:22-23; Jeremiah 31:19; Lamentations 3:27-28; Ezekiel 20:37,43; Ezekiel 6:9; Hosea 2:6-7; Hosea 5:15; Romans 5:3-4; Romans 8:17,28; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Philippians 1:12-14,19; Hebrews 12:5; James 1:2-4,12; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:14
- BENEFITS OF, ILLUSTRATED
Genesis 22:12,16-18; Genesis 32:11; Genesis 42:21; Exodus 9:27-28; Exodus 10:7,16-17; Exodus 12:31-33; Numbers 21:7; Judges 10:6-8,10; 1 Samuel 12:9-10; 1 Kings 13:1-10; 2 Chronicles 15:4; 2 Chronicles 33:12-13; Ezra 9:5-15; Nehemiah 9:32; Job 34:31-32; Job 40:1-5; Psalms 18:4-6; Psalms 66:10-12; Psalms 78:34-35; Psalms 119:67,71; Isaiah 26:16; Jeremiah 31:18-19; Lamentations 3:19-20; Hosea 6:1; Jonah 2:1-10; Luke 15:11-24; Acts 8:24
- Exemplified
- Joseph's brethren
- Joseph
- Israel
- Josiah
- Hezekiah
- Manasseh
- Jonah
- Prodigal son
- CONSOLATION IN
Genesis 21:17; Genesis 16:7-13; Genesis 26:17,33; Genesis 31:42; Exodus 3:7-8,16-17; Exodus 14:13-14; Deuteronomy 33:27; 2 Samuel 22:28; Job 5:6-27; Job 11:16-19; Job 16:5; Job 29:25; Job 31:19-22; Job 35:10; Psalms 9:9-10; Psalms 23:4; Psalms 27:5-6; Psalms 30:5; Psalms 31:7; Psalms 34:4,19-20; Psalms 37:23-24,32-33; Psalms 41:3; Psalms 42:5; Psalms 46:1; Psalms 50:15; Psalms 55:22; Psalms 56:8-10; Psalms 62:1-2,5-8,11-12; Psalms 68:6; Psalms 69:20,33; Psalms 71:20; Psalms 73:26; Psalms 94:17-19; Psalms 103:13-14; Psalms 112:4; Psalms 119:50,52,54,92,143; Psalms 138:3,7-8; Psalms 140:12; Psalms 145:14; Psalms 147:3; Proverbs 12:13; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 14:31-32; Isaiah 25:4; Isaiah 30:19-20; Isaiah 40:1-2,29; Isaiah 41:10,13-14,17; Isaiah 42:3; Isaiah 43:2; Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 50:4,7-10; Isaiah 51:3-13; Isaiah 54:4,11; Isaiah 58:10; Isaiah 61:1-3; Isaiah 63:9; Isaiah 66:5,13-14; Jeremiah 31:13,25; Jeremiah 39:17-18; Lamentations 3:31-33,57; Ezekiel 11:16; Hosea 2:14-15; Hosea 6:1-3; Nahum 1:7; Zephaniah 3:18; Matthew 5:4,10-12; Matthew 10:29-31; Matthew 11:28; Matthew 14:27; Matthew 25:34-36,40; Matthew 28:5,9-10; Mark 6:50; Luke 6:21-23; Luke 7:13; Luke 12:6-7; Luke 21:18; John 14:1,16,18,27; John 15:18,20; John 16:20,22,33; Acts 12:5; Acts 23:11; Romans 8:28,35-39; Romans 12:12,15; Romans 15:4; 2 Corinthians 1:3-5,7; 2 Corinthians 4:8-10,16-17; 2 Corinthians 7:6; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Galatians 6:2; Philippians 1:19; 1 Thessalonians 4:13,16-18; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17; 2 Timothy 2:12; 2 Timothy 4:17; Hebrews 2:14-15,18; Hebrews 4:15-16; Hebrews 6:18; Hebrews 12:1-4; Hebrews 13:3,5-6; James 1:12,27; James 5:8,10; 1 Peter 2:21-24; 1 Peter 4:12-14; 1 Peter 5:7; Revelation 2:9-10; Revelation 3:2,10; Revelation 7:14-17
- DELIVERANCE FROM
See PRAYER ANSWERED
- DESIGN OF
Deuteronomy 8:2,16; Deuteronomy 30:1-3; Deuteronomy 31:17; Judges 2:21-22; 1 Kings 8:33-48; 2 Chronicles 6:24-31; 2 Chronicles 7:13-14; Job 33:11,16-30; Job 36:8-10; Psalms 66:10; Psalms 106:43-44; Psalms 107:10-14,17-21,23-31; Psalms 119:71; Ecclesiastes 7:14; Isaiah 1:25-27; Isaiah 4:3-4; Isaiah 9:13-14; Isaiah 52:5-6; Jeremiah 24:5; Lamentations 1:5; Ezekiel 6:10; Ezekiel 14:10-11; Daniel 4:25-27,34; Hosea 5:15; Amos 4:6; Micah 6:9; Malachi 3:3; John 9:2-3; John 11:4; John 15:2; John 21:19; 1 Corinthians 11:32; 2 Corinthians 1:4-6; 2 Corinthians 4:11,17; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Philippians 1:29-30; 2 Thessalonians 1:4-5; Hebrews 2:10-18; Hebrews 5:8-9; Hebrews 12:5-11; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 5:10; Revelation 2:10
See BENEFITS OF, aove
- DESPONDENCY IN
Job 4:5; Job 9:16-35; Psalms 22:1-2; Proverbs 24:10; Lamentations 3:39; Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34; Luke 18:1
- DISPENSATION OF GOD
Exodus 4:11; Deuteronomy 4:5-31; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Deuteronomy 32:39; Ruth 1:20-21; 1 Samuel 2:6-7; 2 Samuel 16:10; 2 Kings 6:33; 2 Kings 15:5; 2 Chronicles 7:12-22; Job 1:21; Job 5:6,17-18; Job 6:4; Job 9:12,22; Job 10:8; Job 11:10; Job 12:14-25; Job 19:6,21; Job 21:17; Job 23:16; Job 27:2; Job 30:11; Job 34:29; Psalms 38:3; Psalms 66:11; Psalms 71:20; Psalms 78:31-34; Psalms 88:6-7,16; Psalms 89:38-45; Psalms 90:7,15; Psalms 102:10,23; Isaiah 30:20; Isaiah 45:7; Jeremiah 45:3; Lamentations 1:5; Lamentations 3:1; Daniel 4:24-26; Amos 3:6; Jonah 2:3; Micah 1:12; Romans 8:20; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Hebrews 12:10; Revelation 3:19
- FROM SATAN
Job 1; Job 2; 2 Corinthians 12:7
See TEMPTATION
See IMPENITENC IN
See OBDURACY IN, blow
- MOCKING AT
- MURMURING IN
See MURMURING
- OBDURACY IN
Leviticus 26:23-24,27-28; Job 36:12-13; Psalms 78:31-32; Isaiah 8:21; Isaiah 9:13; Isaiah 22:12-13; Isaiah 26:11; Isaiah 42:25; Isaiah 57:17; Jeremiah 2:30,35; Jeremiah 3:3; Jeremiah 5:3; Jeremiah 7:28; Daniel 9:13; Hosea 7:9-10,14; Hosea 9:17; Amos 4:6-11; Zephaniah 3:2,7; Haggai 2:17; Revelation 9:20-21; Revelation 16:9-11,21
- As a Judgment
See JUDGEMENT
See IMPENITENCE
- INSTANCES OF
- PENITENCE IN: INSTANCES OF
- Pharaoh
- David
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Levites
- PRAYER IN
Genesis 32:11; Genesis 43:14; Exodus 17:4; Numbers 20:16; 1 Samuel 1:10-11; 2 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 15:31; 2 Samuel 22:7; 1 Kings 8:36-50; 2 Kings 19:16,19; 1 Chronicles 5:20; 2 Chronicles 6:24-39; 2 Chronicles 14:11; 2 Chronicles 20:4-13; 2 Chronicles 33:12-13; Nehemiah 4:4-5,9; Nehemiah 6:9,14; Nehemiah 9:32; Job 10:2,9,15; Job 13:21; Job 16:20; Psalms 3:1-2,7; Psalms 4:1; Psalms 5:8; Psalms 6:1-7; Psalms 7:1-2,6-7; Psalms 9:13-14; Psalms 10:1,12-15; Psalms 13:1-4; Psalms 16:1; Psalms 17:1-2,6-9,13-14; Psalms 20:1-2; Psalms 22:1-21; Psalms 25:2,16-19,22; Psalms 27:11-12; Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:9-10; Psalms 31:1-4,14-18; Psalms 35:1-3,17,19,22-23,25; Psalms 38:1-22; Psalms 39:10,12-13; Psalms 40:13,17; Psalms 42:9; Psalms 43:1-5; Psalms 44:4,23-26; Psalms 50:15; Psalms 54:1-3; Psalms 55:1-17; Psalms 56:1-13; Psalms 57:1-2; Psalms 59:1-17; Psalms 60:1-3,11; Psalms 61:1-2; Psalms 64:1-2; Psalms 69:1-36; Psalms 70:1-2; Psalms 71:1-2,4,9,12; Psalms 74:1,3,10-11,19,21-23; Psalms 77:1-2,7-9; Psalms 79:1,5,8-9,11; Psalms 80:1,3-5,14; Psalms 83:1-18; Psalms 85:5-7; Psalms 86:1-17; Psalms 88:9-14; Psalms 89:39-51; Psalms 90:15; Psalms 94:1-23; Psalms 102:2,24; Psalms 106:47; Psalms 108:6,12; Psalms 109:1-31; Psalms 116:4; Psalms 119:22,28,39,41-42,76-77,82,84; 107,121-123,134,145-149,153,154,170,173; Psalms 120:2; Psalms 123:3-4; Psalms 126:4; Psalms 130:1-8; Psalms 140:1-13; Psalms 141:1-10; Psalms 142:1-2,5-7; Psalms 143:1-12; Isaiah 33:2; Isaiah 38:2-3,14-19; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 63:15-17; Isaiah 64:1,9-12; Jeremiah 10:24; Jeremiah 14:8-9,19-21; Jeremiah 15:15; Jeremiah 16:19; Jeremiah 17:17-18; Jeremiah 18:19; Jeremiah 27:8; Jeremiah 32:16-25; Lamentations 1:9-11,20; Lamentations 2:18-19; Lamentations 5:1,16-17,19-22; Daniel 6:10; Joel 1:19; Jonah 1:14; Jonah 2:1-10; Habakkuk 1:12-13; Matthew 8:25; Matthew 14:30; Matthew 15:22-28; Matthew 26:39,42,44; Matthew 27:46; Mark 14:36; Mark 15:34; Luke 18:1; Luke 22:42; Luke 23:46; John 11:3; Acts 4:29-30; Acts 7:59-60; 2 Corinthians 12:8; James 5:13-16
See PRAYER
- PRAYER IN, ANSWERED
See PRAYER, ANSWERED
- PRAYER FOR THE AFFLICTED
See INTERCESSION
- RESIGNATION IN
Job 5:17; Job 13:15; Job 34:31-32,34; Psalms 4:4; Psalms 37:1; Psalms 46:10; Proverbs 3:11; Lamentations 3:22-36,39; Micah 6:9; Matthew 26:39; Mark 14:36; Luke 21:19; Luke 22:42; John 18:11; Romans 5:3; Romans 12:12; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Philippians 2:14; Colossians 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Timothy 2:3; 2 Timothy 4:5; Hebrews 10:34; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:10; James 4:7; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 4:12-13,19; 1 Peter 5:6-7
- RESIGNATION IN, EXEMPLIFIED
Judges 10:15; 1 Samuel 3:18; 2 Samuel 12:23; 2 Samuel 15:26; 2 Samuel 16:10,12; 2 Samuel 24:14; 2 Kings 4:26; 2 Kings 20:19; Nehemiah 9:33; Esther 4:16; Job 1:21-22; Job 2:10; Job 13:15; Job 14:14; Psalms 39:9; Psalms 71:20; Psalms 119:75; Isaiah 39:8; Jeremiah 10:19; Lamentations 1:18; Lamentations 3:39; Daniel 9:14; Micah 7:9; Luke 23:40-41; Acts 21:14; Romans 5:3-4; 2 Corinthians 6:4-10; 2 Corinthians 7:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; James 5:11
See RESIGNATION
- INSTANCES OF RESIGNATION IN
- Aaron, at the death of Nadab and Abihu
- Against his house were foretold
- David, at the death of his child
- The Shunammite woman
- Jesus, in Gethsemane
- Paul and Silas in prison
Bible verses about “Afflictions and Adversities”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Psalms 80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
- Isaiah 9:1Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
- Jeremiah 46:28Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
- Genesis 15:13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
- Genesis 15:14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
- Numbers 14:33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
- Isaiah 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
- Jeremiah 29:10For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
- Lamentations 3:33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
- Job 5:6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
- Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- Job 14:1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
- Genesis 3:16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
- Genesis 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
- Genesis 3:18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
- Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Job 4:8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- Job 20:11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- 2 Samuel 12:14Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
- Psalms 89:30If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
- Psalms 89:31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
- Psalms 89:32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
- Acts 13:10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- Acts 13:11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
- Job 16:7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
- Job 16:8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
- Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- Job 16:10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
- Job 16:11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
- Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
- Job 16:13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
- Job 16:14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
- Job 16:16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Psalms 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Psalms 66:12Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
- Jonah 2:3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.