When people are happy, they smile, but when they are sad, they look depressed.

Your will to live can sustain you when you are sick, but if you lose it, your last hope is gone.

(SEE 1:9)

but when she came to Elisha, she bowed down before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi was about to push her away, but Elisha said, "Leave her alone. Can't you see she's deeply distressed? And the LORD has not told me a thing about it."

(SEE 6:1)

Almighty God has shot me with arrows, and their poison spreads through my body. God has lined up his terrors against me.

No! I can't be quiet! I am angry and bitter. I have to speak.

He won't let me catch my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness.

I am tired of living. Listen to my bitter complaint.

The power of the LORD came on me with great force, and as his spirit carried me off, I felt bitter and angry.

He took Peter, James, and John with him. Distress and anguish came over him,

and he said to them, "The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me. Stay here and keep watch."

"Now my heart is troubled---and what shall I say? Shall I say, 'Father, do not let this hour come upon me'? But that is why I came---so that I might go through this hour of suffering.

and said to one another, "Yes, now we are suffering the consequences of what we did to our brother; we saw the great trouble he was in when he begged for help, but we would not listen. That is why we are in this trouble now."

The LORD is the friend of those who obey him and he affirms his covenant with them.

"When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.

Jesus answered him, "Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.

And God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus.

You love him, although you have not seen him, and you believe in him, although you do not now see him. So you rejoice with a great and glorious joy which words cannot express,

"If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! "To those who win the victory I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give each of them a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.