Bible Verses About Afflictions: God dispenses, as He will
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But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Verses on God dispenses, as He will
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.