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suicide and going to heaven

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13Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.

16Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you? 17But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.

7Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls! 9Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow. 10Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

19Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

33These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world.”

9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

10The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.