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2 Kings 4 18-2 Kings 4 20
The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.He said to his father,“ My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“ Carry him to his mother.”So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.
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1 Peter 4 12
Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.
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James 1:2-4
My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
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Psalms 104:29
When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
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Job 34:14
If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
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Daniel 5:23
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
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Zechariah 12:10
“ I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.
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Genesis 22:1-2
Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him,“ Abraham!”“ Here I am!” Abraham replied.God said,“ Take your son– your only son, whom you love, Isaac– and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”
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1 Peter 1 7
Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
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John 11:3-4
So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,“ Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”When Jesus heard this, he said,“ This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
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John 11:14
Then Jesus told them plainly,“ Lazarus has died,
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Job 12:10
in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.
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James 1:12
Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
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James 2:26
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.