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2 Kings 4 18-2 Kings 4 20
One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters.Suddenly he cried out,“ My head hurts! My head hurts!” His father said to one of the servants,“ Carry him home to his mother.”So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died.
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1 Peter 4 12
Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.
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James 1:2-4
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
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Psalms 104:29
But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust.
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Job 34:14
If God were to take back his spirit and withdraw his breath,
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Daniel 5:23
For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone— gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
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Zechariah 12:10
“ Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.
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Genesis 22:1-2
Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith.“ Abraham!” God called.“ Yes,” he replied.“ Here I am.”“ Take your son, your only son— yes, Isaac, whom you love so much— and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
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1 Peter 1 7
These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold— though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
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John 11:3-4
So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him,“ Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”But when Jesus heard about it he said,“ Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.”
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John 11:14
So he told them plainly,“ Lazarus is dead.
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Job 12:10
For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being.
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James 1:12
God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
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James 2:26
Just as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works.