Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
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Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
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Genesis 14:22
Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
Job 33:19
“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
Psalms 50:15
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Daniel 11:35
Some of those who are wise will fall—to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.
Malachi 3:2
“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
Malachi 3:3
and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
1 Peter 1:7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
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Genesis 45:5
Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:6
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
Genesis 45:7
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:8
So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Psalms 76:10
Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
Psalms 105:16
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
Psalms 105:17
He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
Isaiah 10:7
However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
Acts 2:23
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
Acts 3:13
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
Acts 3:14
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Acts 3:15
and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
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Deuteronomy 4:21
Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
Deuteronomy 4:22
but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
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2 Chronicles 30:6
So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:11
Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
2 Chronicles 36:12
He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.
Psalms 131:2
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Jeremiah 44:10
They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’
Daniel 5:22
“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
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2 Kings 4:26
Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’ ” She answered, “It is well.”
Job 5:6
For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 42:12
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
Jeremiah 24:5
“Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, as good.
Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
John 15:2
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Romans 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
Romans 5:5
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 8:18
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
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Psalms 32:1
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psalms 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 73:14
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
Psalms 73:15
If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Psalms 89:30
If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
Psalms 89:31
if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
Psalms 89:32
then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 89:33
But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms 89:34
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
Psalms 94:14
For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Proverbs 13:24
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
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Psalms 73:10
Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
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Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 40:8
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
Psalms 86:11
Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
Psalms 112:1
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
Psalms 119:23
Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119:35
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Psalms 119:47
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
Psalms 143:10
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
Luke 24:45
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
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Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
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Psalms 88:7
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
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Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 19:9
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
Psalms 19:10
They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
Psalms 19:11
Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
Psalms 37:23
A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
Psalms 119:145
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Isaiah 26:9
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
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Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
Psalms 119:54
Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Psalms 119:93
I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
Psalms 119:99
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Psalms 119:101
I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Psalms 119:102
I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
Psalms 119:148
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 119:45
I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
Psalms 119:80
Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.
Psalms 119:92
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Psalms 119:162
I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
Psalms 119:164
Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.
Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
Matthew 7:26
Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
John 5:39
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
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Psalms 119:94
I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
Psalms 119:107
I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
Psalms 119:108
Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
Psalms 119:117
Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.
Psalms 119:118
You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
Psalms 119:125
I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
Ezekiel 14:11
that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 14:26
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
2 Peter 2:15
Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
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Job 34:37
For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”
Daniel 9:7
“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
Daniel 9:8
Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him.
Daniel 9:14
Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
Luke 15:19
I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.” ’
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Leviticus 26:41
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
Leviticus 26:43
The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
1 Kings 8:48
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,
Job 5:18
For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
Job 34:31
“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
Job 34:32
Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
Job 36:8
If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
Job 36:10
He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
Lamentations 3:39
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Hosea 6:1
“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
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Psalms 119:8
I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.
Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalms 119:39
Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
Psalms 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119:83
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
Psalms 119:112
I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.
Psalms 119:171
Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.
Micah 2:7
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Romans 7:13
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
Philippians 3:8
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
1 John 2:27
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
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1 Kings 17:17
After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
1 Kings 17:18
She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
Job 10:1
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
Isaiah 22:13
and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
Isaiah 22:14
Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 26:11
Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
Isaiah 42:25
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
Jeremiah 23:20
Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
Haggai 1:5
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:7
“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
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Psalms 71:16
I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
Isaiah 26:13
Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
Hosea 2:7
She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’
Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’
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Matthew 8:15
He touched her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and served him.
Matthew 20:34
Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.
Luke 18:43
Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
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Acts 3:26
God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
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Acts 9:3
As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.
Acts 9:4
He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
Acts 9:8
Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
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Psalms 101:1
I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
Isaiah 1:25
I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Jeremiah 10:24
Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Galatians 3:24
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
Hebrews 6:15
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
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Proverbs 20:30
Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
Isaiah 4:4
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 9:13
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
Ezekiel 20:38
I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
Ezekiel 24:13
“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
Philippians 1:19
For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
2 Thessalonians 1:4
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
Revelation 3:10
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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