-
2 Kings 4 18-2 Kings 4 20
When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.And he said to his father,“ My head, my head!” And his father said to his servant,“ Carry him to his mother.”When he had carried him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
-
1 Peter 4 12
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though something strange were happening to you;
-
James 1:2-4
Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials,knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
-
Psalms 104:29
You hide Your face, they are terrified; You take away their breath, they perish And return to their dust.
-
Job 34:14
If He were to determine to do so, If He were to gather His spirit and His breath to Himself,
-
Daniel 5:23
but you have risen up against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor understand. But the God in whose hand are your life breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.
-
Zechariah 12:10
“ And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
-
Genesis 22:1-2
Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him,“ Abraham!” And he said,“ Here I am.”Then He said,“ Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”
-
1 Peter 1 7
so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which perishes though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
-
John 11:3-4
So the sisters sent word to Him, saying,“ Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”But when Jesus heard this, He said,“ This sickness is not meant for death, but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.”
-
John 11:14
So Jesus then said to them plainly,“ Lazarus died,
-
Job 12:10
In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
-
James 1:12
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
-
James 2:26
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.