¹⁶ He gave you manna^(A) to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known,^(B) to humble and test^(C) you so that in the end it might go well with you.

Psalm 136

²⁷ God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.^{(A) 28} ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a](B) As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’^[b]

⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness^(A) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire^(B)—may result in praise, glory and honor^(C) when Jesus Christ is revealed.^(D)