Proverbs 18:14
English Standard Version
14 A man's spirit will endure sickness,
but (A)a crushed spirit who can bear?
Proverbs 15:13
English Standard Version
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
English Standard Version
9 But he said to me, (A)“My grace is sufficient for you, for (B)my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that (C)the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 (D)For the sake of Christ, then, (E)I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For (F)when I am weak, then I am strong.
Read full chapter
Proverbs 17:22
English Standard Version
1 Peter 1:6
English Standard Version
6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by (A)various trials,
Read full chapter
James 1:2
English Standard Version
Testing of Your Faith
2 (A)Count it all joy, my brothers,[a] when you meet trials (B)of various kinds,
Read full chapter
Psalm 147:3
English Standard Version
2 Corinthians 2:7
English Standard Version
7 so (A)you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
Read full chapter
Romans 5:3-5
English Standard Version
3 Not only that, but we (A)rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering (B)produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and (C)hope does not put us to shame, because God's love (D)has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Read full chapter
Mark 14:33-34
English Standard Version
33 And he took with him (A)Peter and James and John, and began (B)to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34 And he said to them, (C)“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and (D)watch.”[a]
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Mark 14:34 Or keep awake; also verses 37, 38
Psalm 109:22
English Standard Version
22 For I am (A)poor and needy,
and my heart is stricken within me.
Psalm 88:14-16
English Standard Version
14 O Lord, why (A)do you cast my soul away?
Why (B)do you hide your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.[a]
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
your (C)dreadful assaults destroy me.
Footnotes
- Psalm 88:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Psalm 42:10-11
English Standard Version
10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
(A)while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
11 (B)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
Psalm 38:2-4
English Standard Version
3 There is (C)no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my (D)bones
because of my sin.
4 For my (E)iniquities have gone over my head;
like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Psalm 32:3-4
English Standard Version
3 For when I kept silent, my (A)bones wasted away
through my (B)groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your (C)hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 32:4 Hebrew my vitality was changed
Job 1:20-21
English Standard Version
2 Corinthians 1:12
English Standard Version
Paul's Change of Plans
12 For our boast is this, (A)the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity[a] and (B)godly sincerity, (C)not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Corinthians 1:12 Some manuscripts holiness
Romans 8:35-37
English Standard Version
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,
(A)“For your sake (B)we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than (C)conquerors through (D)him who loved us.
Read full chapter
Psalm 55:5
English Standard Version
Psalm 55:3
English Standard Version
3 because of the noise of the enemy,
because of the oppression of the wicked.
For they (A)drop trouble upon me,
and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
Psalm 30:9-10
English Standard Version
9 “What profit is there in my death,[a]
if I go down to the pit?[b]
Will (A)the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 (B)Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!
O Lord, be my helper!”
Footnotes
- Psalm 30:9 Hebrew in my blood
- Psalm 30:9 Or to corruption
Job 7:14-15
English Standard Version
14 then you scare me with dreams
and terrify me with visions,
15 so that I would choose strangling
and death rather than my (A)bones.
Job 6:4
English Standard Version
4 For (A)the arrows of the Almighty are in me;
my spirit drinks their poison;
the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 2:7-10
English Standard Version
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome (A)sores from (B)the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 And he took (C)a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in (D)the ashes.
9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still (E)hold fast your integrity? (F)Curse God and die.” 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the (G)foolish women would speak. (H)Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?”[a] (I)In all this Job did not (J)sin with his lips.
Read full chapterThe Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
Bible Gateway Recommends
