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Psalm 39:6-7
“ Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.“ But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you. (niv)
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Hiob 17:11-15
My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heartturn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near.If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,if I say to corruption,‘ You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘ My mother’ or‘ My sister,’where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me? (niv)
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1 Mose 43 14
And may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.” (niv)
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2 Korinther 1 8-2 Korinther 1 10
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, (niv)
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1 Thessalonicher 3 3-1 Thessalonicher 3 4
so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them.In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. (niv)
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1 Korinther 15 19
If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. (niv)