So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus.
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus' side,
So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
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