whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him yet, believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

but rejoice in so far as you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also rejoice with exceeding joy.

And Hannah prayed and said: My heart has rejoiced in Jehovah; my horn has been exalted in Jehovah. My mouth has been enlarged over my enemies, because I have rejoiced in Your salvation.

so that I may declare all Your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in Your salvation.

All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like You, who delivers the lowly from him who is too strong for him; yea, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?

Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah! Let us shout joyfully unto the Rock of our salvation.

Behold, the Mighty God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid; for YAH JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.

And with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.

I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garment of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in Heaven, for in this manner they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.

And the angel said to them, Do not fear, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.

Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no one takes your joy from you.

through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.

And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, continuing steadfastly in prayer;

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather exult in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell upon me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

For we are the circumcision, who serve God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in the flesh,

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the Word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

Let the lowly brother rejoice in his exaltation,

But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and calm in your prayers.

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is achieving for us a surpassing and eternal weight of glory,

that the testing of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found unto praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

for though He causes grief, yet He will have compassion according to the multitude of His kindness.

For He does not wish to afflict nor grieve the sons of men;

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline?

Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,

I am afraid of all my pain; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

Reproach has broken My heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for someone to show pity, but there was no one; and for comforters, but I found none.

My soul has wept from grief; strengthen me according to Your Word.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and in extreme anguish.

that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.

since he was longing for you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.

Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to shame.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all.

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must enter the kingdom of God through many afflictions.

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we became spectacles to all creation, both to angels and to men.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and wander homeless.

being defamed, we entreat. We have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us.

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

For we who live are always delivered to death because of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I excel them: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;

in hardship and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness;

Women received their dead raised to life again. And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tried, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, oppressed;

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,