1 Kings 17:17

¹⁴So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.

²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

¹After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

²He 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.”

²Count it all joy, my brothers,^[+] when you fall into various temptations, ³knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

³The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

⁴But 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.”

¹⁴If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

¹²Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

²⁹You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

²³but 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.

¹⁸When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers. ¹⁹He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

²⁰When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.