WHAT IS GOD’S PURPOSE
IN
ALLOWING CHRISTIANS TO SUFFER?


 

Greek:        Affliction thlipis=pressure; kakopatheia=suffering evil

Burden baros=weight; phortion=load to be borne

Chasten paideno=to instruct, train up

Persecution dokimos=pursuit

Suffering stego=to endure, to cause loss, dishonor

Temptation peirasmos=trial, proving

Trials dokime=tested;

purosis=a burning, trial by fire;

peira=a piercing through

Tribulation thlipsis=pressure, distress, to be pressed, squeezed

Trouble tarthlipsis=trembling, agitation, disturbance

1. John 16:33In the world, you have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

2. I Corinthians 11:31-32 “For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.”

3. II Timothy 3:12 “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”

4. I Corinthians 10:13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

5. I Peter 4:12-14 “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange things happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you:”

6. Hebrews 5:8 “Though Jesus were a Son, ye learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.”

7. Hebrews 12:5-11 “Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Now no chastening for the resent seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yeildeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are excercised thereby.”

8. I Peter 2:21 “For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow in his steps.”

9. Philippians 3:10 “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”

10. I Peter 5:10 “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.”

11. II Peter 1:5-9 “Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

12. James 1:2-4 “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

13. Romans 5:3-5 “We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

14. II Corinthians 12:9-10 My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”

15. Romans 8:18 “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

16. I Peter 1:7 “The trial of your faith, being much precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor, and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”

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