Helping Those In Pain

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.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. — read the full passage →

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. — read the full passage →

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. — read the full passage →

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.” — read the full passage →

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

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. — read the full passage →

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. — read the full passage →

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. — read the full passage →

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. — read the full passage →

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God. — read the full passage →

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? — read the full passage →

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, — read the full passage →

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; — read the full passage →

“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →