2 Kings 4:1

Elisha and the Widow’s Oil

1Now the wife of one of the asons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, bbut the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Psalms 34:19

19 cMany are the afflictions of the righteous,
dbut the Lord delivers him out of them all.

Hebrews 12:6

6For ethe Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Hebrews 12:10-11

10For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, fthat we may share his holiness. 11 gFor the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields hthe peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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