John 16:6

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

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.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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

He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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

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,

It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

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.

They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

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

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

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

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

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

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”

He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

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.

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.