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Scripture never rushes past grief. These passages sit with suffering and still refuse to let go of God's goodness. Psalms 34:18 The Lord is near to the broken hearted and saves those crushed in spirit. Nearness is his first answer to pain. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Though the outer self wastes away,…
Bible Memory verse
Paul considers present sufferings not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. It is a considered judgment rather than a denial of pain, made by a man who was beaten and imprisoned. 2 Corinthians 4:17 1 Peter 5:10 Revelation 21:4 Lord, weigh my suffering against your glory and…
Devotional
…the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, WEB Paul is writing this while listing real suffering: hunted, struck down, carrying about the dying of Jesus in his body, verses 8-10. He…
Devotional
Romans 5:3-4 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope. WEB Paul does not say suffering is good in…
Chapter study
…4:19 My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. The mountain of provision became the mountain of the temple, and the temple's whole calendar of substitutes was fulfilled just…
Chapter study
…15:8 The purpose of that fruit and that prayer is named as the Father's glory. Notice what condition sits inside the same sentence as the promise, before treating it as unconditional. From vine to love: the command that…
Chapter study
…The circumstances Paul has just named: full and hungry, abounding and suffering need. Philippians 4:13 The strength promised, standing inside that discussion rather than apart from it. Read verse 13 without separating…
Chapter study
…who may ascend the hill of the Lord. The three read as a sequence: the suffering one, the shepherded one, the enthroned King. Placed between agony and coronation, Psalm 23 refuses to be a sentimental interlude. It is…
Chapter study
…why he spends the middle of the chapter on the Spirit, why suffering appears before glory, and why he ends with a list of everything that might separate a believer from God. Notice also who is speaking. Paul had watched…
Dig Deeper
…spent ten verses on groaning, futility, bondage to corruption and the suffering of the present time. He is not a man pretending that pain is a blessing in disguise. It does not promise a comfortable outcome either.…
Bible study
…is produced by the Spirit, not manufactured by effort. v.18 The sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Paul does not minimise suffering; he weighs it. The…
Dig Deeper
…power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in…
Verse study
…the same truth for every believer, in every century. God does not waste suffering. He redeems it. He shapes His children through it. What good means, according to verse 29 Paul does not leave the word good undefined.…
Reading plan
…comfort and restoration. Isaiah 53:1-6 Substitution Isaiah describes a suffering servant, despised and rejected, wounded for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, so that we could be healed by his wounds.…
Devotional
…persecution at this early date. Peter addresses real, present suffering directly rather than offering comfort detached from their situation. The phrase living hope uses the same word for living that describes Jesus as a…
Devotional
…power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. WEB Paul is specific about the number of times he asked. This was not a passing…
Devotional
…The request in Mark 10:37 asks for seats at Jesus' left and right in glory, and He answers with the cup He must drink and the baptism He must undergo, pointing toward suffering rather than honor. Verse 42-44 contrasts…
Devotional
Romans 5:3-4 We also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope. WEB Paul does not say suffering is good in itself. He says it…
Devotional
…and I will give you the crown of life, the same phrase in a letter to a suffering church. 2 Timothy 4:7-8 Paul at the end of his life speaks of finishing the race and a crown of righteousness laid up for him. What trial…
Devotional
…teaching they find hardest to accept. The cloud recalls the cloud of glory that covered Sinai and later the tabernacle, Exodus 24:15-18 and 40:34-35, the visible sign of God's presence. Its appearance here signals that…
52 Week Journey
The Bible does not promise a life without suffering, and it never pretends pain is small. Job loses everything, David writes psalms from the pit, and Paul catalogues beatings and shipwrecks. What Scripture offers…
52 Week Journey
…treats sickness or weakness as if they carry no weight. It records real suffering, real pleading, and real healing, and it also records unanswered requests to be healed. Both are part of the honest witness of the Bible.…
52 Week Journey
…Christ they are yes, and through Christ the church says Amen to God's glory. The Seed of the Woman The first promise in Scripture is already about Him. Genesis 3:15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and…
Bible study
…quoted by Jesus on the cross, and Psalm 24, the psalm of the King of glory entering his gates. Read together they trace a movement from cross, to care, to crown. Shepherd ro'eh (רֹעֶה) One who pastures, feeds and leads;…
Dig Deeper
…into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. Two chapters earlier Paul has explained the union: the believer is joined to Christ's…
Devotional
…transgressions, for our iniquities. The promised rescue comes through suffering, not around it. Isaiah 53 was written for people waiting long before the event. Healing here is chiefly spiritual: by his wounds we are…
Verse study
…It pleased the Lord to bruise him; the Father's purpose in the Son's suffering. John 3:16 God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son. Romans 5:8 God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were…
Devotional
…tension the Bible refuses to resolve cheaply. Jeremiah does not say the suffering is small, and he does not say God had nothing to do with it. He says both that the Lord has afflicted him and that the Lord's mercies do…
Verse study
…precisely 'My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.' The standard of supply is God's own glorious riches, an extravagant measure, and the channel is Christ Jesus specifically.…
Verse study
…by the believer's worst week. What this means for fear, doubt and suffering For the believer struggling with fear, the list is medicine because it is specific. Paul does not say do not be afraid. He names the things…
Dig Deeper
Romans 8:32 He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? The argument runs from the greater to the lesser. If God has already given the…
Dig Deeper
…4:19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Paul writes this to a church that had just sent him money while he sat in prison. He says need, not comfort, and he says it…
Biblical concept
…Lamb bearing marks of slaughter even while reigning, holding cross and glory together. The title begins with a question a son asks his father on the way up a mountain. Isaac notices the wood and the fire but no animal,…
Biblical concept
…Israel does have Old Testament roots, but the prophets also describe a suffering figure, as in Isaiah 53. Jesus fulfils both strands, first through suffering and then, still to come, through his return in glory, rather…
Biblical concept
…kingdom from the Ancient of Days. Jesus uses it for both his suffering and his glory. He says the Son of Man must suffer many things, and he says the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father. Ezekiel 2:1 God…
Biblical concept
…though the Old Testament had already spoken in advance of a pierced, suffering figure in passages such as Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53:5 He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.…
Biblical concept
…sentence: the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory. Philippians 2:6 to 7 describes the movement involved: though he was in the form of God, he did not consider equality with God a thing to be…
Christian Living
Romans 8:18 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. WEB romans 8 Paul does not say the sufferings are small. He weighs them,…
Topic study
…asks. Where does hope come from, what is it fastened to, what does suffering do to it, who is coming, why does the morning matter, and how does it end. Read them slowly. Each one is quoted in full, taught, traced to…
Topic study
…us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’ The pattern our Lord gave. Address, worship, kingdom, provision, forgiveness, protection, doxology. Every honest prayer walks…
Biblical concept
…the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and that we have seen his glory. Two things are held together: full deity from verse 1, and real humanity here. Nothing is subtracted from either. The verb dwelt is literally to…
Christian Living
…Inheriting the promises through faith and patience. Galatians 5:22 Longsuffering listed as fruit of the Spirit, not of temperament. Patience James 1:3-4 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let…
Bible question
Romans 8:18 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. WEB This question deserves God's words before ours. Read these passages…
Bible question
…to their prayers, echoing the same confidence in a letter written to suffering believers. Praying according to God's will Matthew 6:10 Jesus teaches disciples to pray for God's will to be done, placing it ahead of their…
Bible question
…in that same cell at midnight. The jailer's rescue came through the suffering and testimony of men who trusted Christ even in chains, a small picture of how Christ's own suffering opened the way for others. The Pharisee…
Bible question
…he slay me, yet will I trust in him, spoken from the middle of Job's suffering rather than after it ended. God's character as the ground of trust Psalms 9:10 Trust grows out of knowing God's name, his revealed…
Bible question
…of blood. Whatever anxiety is, extreme distress in the face of coming suffering is not automatically sinful, because Christ experienced it. The birds and the lilies are an argument about worth Jesus reasons from lesser…
Bible question
…it is raised imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is…
Bible question
…Titus 2:13-14 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for…
Bible question
…He was reading Isaiah 53 in a chariot and could not understand who the suffering servant was. He was religious, sincere and stuck. God sent Philip to explain Jesus from that very passage, and the man believed and was…
Bible question
…than through people who theorised about him. Moses, asking to see God's glory Exodus 33:18-34:8 Moses asked to see God's glory. He was told no one could see God's face and live, and was placed in a cleft of rock while…
Bible question
…person. John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. WEB Became flesh, and lived among us. The same person who was…
Bible question
…ours. Isaiah 53:4-6 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities.…
Bible question
…and the prophets to show that the Christ had to suffer and enter his glory, then broke bread and was recognised. The risen Christ teaches from the Scriptures. Faith is strengthened by seeing that the resurrection was…
Bible question
…the servant who will be crushed. From the first public moment, king and suffering servant are put together in one sentence. Mark 14:61-62 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are…
Bible question
…obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. Paul had persecuted the church and consented to the…
Bible question
…answers in chapters 38-41, it is not with an explanation of Job's suffering but with a revelation of who he is. Mercy is renewed precisely in the darkest chapter of the Old Testament Lamentations 3:22-23 Written in the…
Bible question
…from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. WEB Jude, writing…
Bible question
…of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” We heard this voice come out of heaven when…
Bible question
…body. Philippians 3:21 Our bodies to be conformed to the body of his glory. What about the sign of Jonah and the three days? Jesus pointed to Jonah as the sign he would give, and the New Testament consistently says the…
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