Afflicted Saints, Examples Of:
1 Corinthians 4:13:
when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
2 Corinthians 6:4-10:
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger, in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love, read more.
Genesis 42:21:
Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.”
Genesis 45:5:
Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Deuteronomy 8:3:
He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
2 Kings 22:19:
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord.
2 Chronicles 32:25-26:
But Hezekiah gave no return for the benefit he received, because his heart was proud; therefore wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem. However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 33:12:
When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Jonah 2:7:
“While I was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
And my prayer came to You,
Into Your holy temple.
Luke 15:21:
And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Afflicted-Saints,-Examples-Of
Finished with this Study, the next Study will be, "Afflicted To Death," which is another two day Study.
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