All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.
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