9 Bible Verses about Despair
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on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing,
Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life;
persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed ??10 wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body:
so that instead of censuring you should now forgive him and comfort him, in case the man is overwhelmed by excessive remorse.
in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead;
he rescued me from so terrible a death, he rescues still, and I rely upon him for the hope that he will continue to rescue me.
My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.
From Thematic Bible
Despair » General references to
In those days men will seek death, but they will not find it: they will long to die, but death flies from them.
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despair » Sometimes drives men to suicide
With the money paid him for his crime he purchased an estate; but swelling up he burst in two, and all his bowels poured out ??19 a fact which became known to all the residents in Jerusalem, so that the estate got the name, in their language, of Akeldamach or The Ground of Blood.
Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself.
Despair » Produced in the wicked by divine judgments
Despair » Leads to » Blasphemy
The fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the Beast; his realm was darkened, and men gnawed their tongues in anguish, blaspheming the God of heaven for their pains and their ulcers, but refusing to repent of their doings.
Despair » Leads to » Continuing in sin
Despair » Saints sometimes tempted to
Despair » Trust in God, a preservative against
Despair » Saints enabled to overcome
on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed ??10 wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body:
Despair » Exemplified » Cain
Despair » Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ
calling to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb;
Despair » Exemplified » Ahithophel
Despair » Exemplified » Judas
Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself.
Topics on Despair
Despair, Description Of
Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death, but they will not find it: they will long to die, but death flies from them.
Despair, Remedies For
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.
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