Bible Verses About Complication

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,