Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me. Please make me healthy and strong again.
I am at the point of death. Let your teachings breathe new life into me.
When you corrected me, it did me good because it taught me to study your laws.
Your decisions are correct, and you were right to punish me.
saving me from death and the grave.
Stop being angry with me and let me smile again before I am dead and gone.”
You made me suffer a lot, but you will bring me back from this deep pit and give me new life.
You help all who gladly obey and do what you want, but sin makes you angry. Only by your help can we ever be saved.
Jesus answered, “The Scriptures say: ‘No one can live only on food. People need every word that God has spoken.’ ”
But when the Lord judges and punishes us, he does it to keep us from being condemned with the rest of the world.
These little troubles are getting us ready for an eternal glory that will make all our troubles seem like nothing.
so he made you go hungry. Then he gave you manna, a kind of food that you and your ancestors had never even heard about. The LORD was teaching you that people need more than food to live—they need every word that the LORD has spoken.
Our earthly fathers correct us, and we still respect them. Isn't it even better to be given true life by letting our spiritual Father correct us?