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18 Bible Verses About Dealing With Difficult Situations

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Summary

  • Deuteronomy 31:6 and Joshua 1:9 give the same charge, “Be strong and courageous,” first from Moses to Israel and then from the Lord to Joshua after Moses’s death.
  • Paul wrote Philippians 4:13 about being content “whether well fed or hungry,” while he was in chains.
  • In 2 Corinthians 12, Paul asked three times for his thorn to be removed, and the answer was grace rather than removal.
  • James 1:3 and Romans 5:3 both say that suffering or testing produces perseverance.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles in Babylon, and its promise follows “When seventy years are completed.”

The Bible expects hard situations. Jesus tells his disciples, “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33). God promises to be present in trouble (Isaiah 41:10), Paul tells believers to bring their worries to God in prayer (Philippians 4:6-7), and James says that trials produce perseverance (James 1:2-4). Jeremiah 29:11 comes from a letter to people carried into exile in Babylon, Lamentations 3 from a book that opens over a deserted Jerusalem, and Philippians from Paul “in chains for…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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