Some time later God tested Abraham. He called to him, “Abraham!”   Abraham answered, “I am here.”    ² God said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains there, the one to which I direct you.”  ³ Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, along with Isaac his son. . .  The two of them went on together.  ⁷ Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father?”  He said, “I am here, my son.”  He said, “Here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”  ⁸ Abraham said, “God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son”. . . ¹⁰ Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.  ¹¹ The Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!”  Abraham said, “I am here.”  ¹² He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy. Do not do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”  ¹³ Abraham looked around and saw that behind him there was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord Will Provide.” So it is said to this day, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”  (Genesis 22:1-14 – EHV)

Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to fall into sin, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a large millstone hung around his neck.  (Mark 9:42 — EHV)

Create in me a pure heart, O God, . . . A broken and crushed heart, O God, you will not despise.”  (Psalm 51:10, 17 - EHV)

Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. (Acts 2:21)

If you, Lord, kept a record of guilt, O Lord, who could stand?  ⁴ But with you there is pardon, so you are feared. (Psalm 103:3-4 – EHV)

Immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. And at that time all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.  (Matthew 24:29-31)