… not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.

So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

We are punished justly, for we are receiving what our actions deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and …

… was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger …

I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’

And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.

if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him …

And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him