A man named Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

One of the disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was sitting next to Jesus.

"Take your son," God said, "your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me."

How excellent are the LORD's faithful people! My greatest pleasure is to be with them.

He is anxious to see you all and is very upset because you had heard that he was sick.

Indeed he was sick and almost died. But God had pity on him, and not only on him but on me, too, and spared me an even greater sorrow.

Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus in Miletus, because he was sick.

Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves, and punishes everyone he accepts as a child."

Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father?

Are any among you sick? They should send for the church elders, who will pray for them and rub olive oil on them in the name of the Lord.

This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.