2 Timothy 1:4

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

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

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

Be diligent to come to me soon,

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

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

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;