9 Bible Verses about Despair
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We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.
so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
He delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with holiness and godly sincerity, not in worldly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and still more toward you.
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Despair » General references to
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
(Now this man bought a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.
Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness; men gnawed their tongues in agony and they cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and they did not repent of their deeds.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man. And God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
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