2 Samuel 16:12

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It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison,

and to give rest to you who are suffering and to us, when our Lord Jesus appears from heaven, with his mighty angels

For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.

Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you,