Judith 8:25-27

New Catholic Bible

²⁵ Despite all this, let us offer thanks to the Lord, our God, for he is putting us to the test as he did our ancestors. ²⁶ Remember how he dealt with Abraham, and how he tested Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Syrian Mesopotamia while he was tending the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother. ²⁷ The Lord did not subject them to these fiery ordeals for vengeance but to test their loyalty, and so has he done with us. The Lord chastises those who worship him as a means of admonition.”^[a]