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1 Kings 8:33,35,47-53
When your people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house:
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Deuteronomy 4:30,31
When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come on you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient to his voice;
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Deuteronomy 30:1,2
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you,
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2 Chronicles 6:28-31
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatever sore or whatever sickness there be:
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Job 5:6-11,17
Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
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Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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Psalm 94:12,13
Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;
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Proverbs 3:11,12
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
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Hebrews 12:5
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
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Ecclesiastes 7:2,3
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
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Isaiah 19:20,22
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
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Isaiah 26:9
With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
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Isaiah 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
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Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
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Jeremiah 22:22,23
The wind shall eat up all your pastors, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
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Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
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Lamentations 3:27,28
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
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Ezekiel 20:37,43
And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
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Ezekiel 6:9
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
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Hosea 2:6,7
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
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Romans 5:3,4
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;
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Romans 8:17,28
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
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2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
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Philippians 1:12-14,19
But I would you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel;
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Hebrews 12:5
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
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James 1:2-4,12
My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;
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1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
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1 Peter 4:14
If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests on you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
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Library

Temptations and Trials.
... seculars by temporal afflictions and adversities, so He ... and good Christians aver,
incessant afflictions are necessary ... of your justice, but as benefits of your ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/v temptations and trials.htm

Israel's Hope Encouraged;
... is that you should receive from this treatise the benefits which its ... prevailing with
the soul to suffer all troubles, afflictions, and adversities that it ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/israels hope encouraged.htm

Hail, Jesus;
... whereby I may pity other men's afflictions, and may ... abuses from those on whom Thou
hadst bestowed many benefits; ... honour of Thy name, I may not fly adversities,. ...
/.../baker/holy wisdom or directions for the prayer of contemplation/hail jesus.htm

Christian Behavior
... shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits?' (Psalm 116:1 ... again that they
have run through so many trials, afflictions, and adversities, even because ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/christian behavior.htm

The Sixth Book
... Roman name, however greatly chastised by afflictions sent from ... the state wounded
by any other adversities, and we ... honor and reverence for the benefits we have ...
//christianbookshelf.org/salvian/on the government of god/the sixth book.htm

Sermons of St. Bernard on the Passing of Malachy
... 1026] which are known to have bestowed many benefits on the ... that, for in regard to
his own afflictions he was ... and the hills and rocks the adversities, of life. ...
/.../sermons of st bernard on.htm

The Treatise
... them, these see in their sufferings and afflictions nothing but ... to call upon Him
in all adversities, these are ... is, to praise God in all His benefits, which are ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/a treatise on good works/the treatise.htm

part ii
... heart is difficult, because it is connected with great privations and afflictions;
and, therefore ... The more He loads us with benefits, the more we ought to love ...
//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/my life in christ/part ii.htm

Subtopics

Afflictions

Afflictions and Adversities in Pharaoh and the Egyptians

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Comparatively Light

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: End in Joy and Blessedness

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Exhibit the Love and Faithfulness of God

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Joy Under

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Often Arise from the Profession of the Gospel

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Temporary

Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: To be Expected

Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are for Examples to Others

Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are Ineffectual for Their Conversion