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.

However, the LORD your God didn't listen to Balaam. The LORD your God turned Balaam's curse into a blessing, because the LORD your God loves you.

Has the LORD struck them down, just as he struck down those who struck them? Or have they been killed, just as their killers were killed?

"How blessed are you whenever people insult you, persecute you, and say all sorts of evil things against you falsely because of me!

And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.

This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,

and to give us who are afflicted relief when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels

For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but God does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.

Dear friends, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, and like the mute, who cannot open his mouth.