Adversity
Proverbs 17:17 BSB
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Isaiah 30:20 BSB
The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
Lamentations 3:38 BSB
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
2 Chronicles 15:6 BSB
Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
Job 2:10 BSB
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 BSB
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
Ecclesiastes 7:14 BSB
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
2 Samuel 12:11 BSB
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
Job 42:11 BSB
All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
Job 2:11 BSB
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
2 Samuel 19:7 BSB
Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
Proverbs 3:5 BSB
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
Psalm 37:5 BSB
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
Romans 8:28 BSB
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
James 1:5 BSB
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
Proverbs 9:10 BSB
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 15:22 BSB
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
James 3:17 BSB
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
Proverbs 4:7 BSB
Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.
Proverbs 2:6 BSB
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.