37 Bible Verses about rehabilitation

For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord;
Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago.
Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces,
Who pierced the dragon?

He said to him, “I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be opposed—

They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus *said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;
Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear

His ways prosper at all times;
Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;
As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire,
And the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.

Why has the wicked spurned God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”

The Lord is King forever and ever;
Nations have perished from His land.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the hiding places he kills the innocent;
His eyes stealthily watch for the unfortunate.

Why do You stand afar off, O Lord?
Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

You have seen it, for You have beheld mischief and vexation to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the helper of the orphan.

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

“Then I will make up to you for the years
That the swarming locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.

Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt to Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded,
And a soft tongue breaks the bone.

So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

Now the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father had done.

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;
He lurks to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon held fast to these in love.

but I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you, even ten tribes.

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.