This Bible study is based on Bible Readings for the Home, a topical study presented in a question-and-answer format. The scripture references come from both the KJV and NIV translations. Additionally, we’ve provided links to each verse from the World English Bible for a more modern interpretation. We encourage you to follow along in your own Bible, reflect on the guided questions, and highlight the verses that speak to you. Feel free to share this study with your friends and family. Enjoy the journey!
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
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14 “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend;
even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
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67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
but now I observe your word.
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18 Consider my affliction and my travail.
Forgive all my sins.
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28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him.
He heard the cry of the afflicted.
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13 Like a father has compassion on his children,
so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
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9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed;
a high tower in times of trouble.
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7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
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“When the Counselor
has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
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4
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.
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16 Yahweh says:
“Refrain your voice from weeping,
and your eyes from tears;
for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh.
“They will come again from the land of the enemy.
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16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she wouldn’t be comforted,
because they are no more.”
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14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
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4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
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6 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
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28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
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12 I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
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I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
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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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17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
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