Bible Study Topic: Adversity

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"Blessed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
For he wounds, but he also binds up; he injures, but his hands also heal.
Job Chapter 5: Verses 17 - 18

The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
Psalms Chapter 9: Verses 9 - 10

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.
Psalms Chapter 23: Verse 4

A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;
he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken.
Psalms Chapter 34: Verses 19 - 20

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.
Psalms Chapter 119: Verse 71

"Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.
Job Chapter 14: Verse 1

If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength!
Proverbs Chapter 24: Verse 10

Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 7: Verse 3

When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 7: Verse 14

Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.
Isaiah Chapter 30: Verse 20

See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah Chapter 48: Verse 10

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny ? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Matthew Chapter 10: Verses 29 - 31

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
John Chapter 16: Verse 33

Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Romans Chapter 5: Verses 3 - 4

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans Chapter 8: Verses 35 - 39

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans Chapter 12: Verse 12

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
2 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verses 3 - 4

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
2 Corinthians Chapter 4: Verses 8 - 10

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.Paul's Concern for the Corinthians
2 Corinthians Chapter 12: Verses 9 - 10

Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians Chapter 6: Verse 2

God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you
and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
2 Thessalonians Chapter 1: Verses 6 - 7

Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy Chapter 2: Verse 3

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
James Chapter 1: Verses 2 - 3

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
These have come so that your faith,of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire,may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
1 Peter Chapter 1: Verses 6 - 7

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.
But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
1 Peter Chapter 4: Verses 12 - 13

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