Popular Bible Verses about Adversity - Page 2

Found 16 Verses (from 11)

Lamentations 3:38

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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? NIV

Is it not out of the mouth of the Most High that evil and good both proceed [adversity and prosperity, physical evil or misfortune and physical good or happiness]? AMP

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? KJV

Job 36:8

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But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction NIV

And if they are bound in fetters [of adversity] and held by cords of affliction, [Ps. 107:10, 11.] AMP

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; KJV

2 Chronicles 15:6

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One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress. NIV

Nation was broke in pieces against nation, and city against city, for God vexed and troubled them with all sorts of adversity. AMP

And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity. KJV

Jeremiah 22:22

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The wind will drive all your shepherds away, and your allies will go into exile. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced because of all your wickedness. NIV

The wind [of adversity] shall pasture upon and consume all your shepherds (your princes and statesmen), and your lovers (allies) shall go into captivity. Surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded and dismayed because of all your wickedness. AMP

The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. KJV

Psalms 35:15

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But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee; assailants gathered against me without my knowledge. They slandered me without ceasing. NIV

But in my stumbling and limping they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; the smiters (slanderers and revilers) gathered against me, and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander and revile me. AMP

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: KJV

Psalms 94:13

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You grant them relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked. NIV

That You may give him power to keep himself calm in the days of adversity, until the [inevitable] pit of corruption is dug for the wicked. AMP

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. KJV