苦難に関する21の聖句

The Bible expects struggle and names it plainly. Jesus told his disciples, “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33), and Job calls human life “full of trouble” (Job 14:1). The struggles it describes include the conflict inside a person between what they want to do and what they do (Romans 7:15, 19; Galatians 5:17), a fight against spiritual powers (Ephesians 6:12), and Jacob’s night of wrestling at the Jabbok, after which he was renamed Israel (Genesis 32:28). Alongside…