Psalms 126:6

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

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

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for 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.

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.

‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?

“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.

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.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

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

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

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.

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

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

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 the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

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

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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.”

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,

They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

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

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.