John 11:31

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes.

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Many believed in him there.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

“This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;

They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.

They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”

David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.

To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

Jesus wept.

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.