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2 Kings 4 18-2 Kings 4 20
When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.He said to his father,“ My head! My head!” He said to his servant,“ Carry him to his mother.”When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
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1 Peter 4 12
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
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James 1:2-4
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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Psalms 104:29
You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
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Job 34:14
If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
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Daniel 5:23
but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.
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Zechariah 12:10
I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
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Genesis 22:1-2
After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him,“ Abraham!” He said,“ Here I am.”He said,“ Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
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1 Peter 1 7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
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John 11:3-4
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying,“ Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”But when Jesus heard it, he said,“ This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
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John 11:14
So Jesus said to them plainly then,“ Lazarus is dead.
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Job 12:10
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
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James 1:12
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
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James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.