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If you falter in the time of trouble, Your strength is small.
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Adversity is a Test
Commentators explain that "the day of adversity" is a test that reveals our true spiritual condition. This adversity can include sickness, financial hardship, or persecution. Fainting under such pressure is a clear sign that one's spiritual strength and courage are lacking, serving as a diagnostic tool for our faith.
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19th Century
Anglican
If you faint in the day of adversity.— And prove unable to help yourself or others; an exhortation to courage (). A “more…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[If] you faint in the day of adversity When under bodily afflictions, stripping providences, reduced to great strait…
Presbyterian
Under troubles we are apt to despair of relief. But be of good courage, and God shall strengthen your heart.
