2 Samuel 16:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.

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  • Deut 23:5 : 5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
  • Ps 25:18 : 18 Look on my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.
  • Exod 2:24-25 : 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect for them.
  • Heb 12:10 : 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our benefit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
  • 1 Pet 4:12-19 : 12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to test you, as though some strange thing happened to you: 13 But rejoice, since you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is spoken of as evil, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a meddler in other people's matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter. 17 For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous are scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust the keeping of their souls to him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
  • Gen 29:32-33 : 32 And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, Surely the LORD has looked upon my affliction; now my husband will love me. 33 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Because the LORD has heard that I was unloved, He has therefore given me this son also; and she called his name Simeon.
  • Exod 3:7-8 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows; 8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • 1 Sam 1:11 : 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your maidservant, and remember me, and not forget your maidservant, but will give your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.
  • Isa 27:7 : 7 Has He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him? Or is he slain according to the slaughter of those that are slain by Him?
  • Matt 5:11-12 : 11 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
  • 2 Thess 1:7 : 7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

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