John 16:22

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John 16:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

21 A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

23 In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

24 Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

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John 16:6

Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.

John 16:20

Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

John 14:1

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.

John 20:19

It was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you!” He said to them.

John 20:20

After He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

John 21:7

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it) and jumped into the sea.

Isaiah 25:9

And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

Isaiah 65:14

My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

Isaiah 66:9

Shall I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it?” says the LORD. “Or will I who deliver close the womb?” says your God.

Isaiah 66:10

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

Isaiah 66:11

so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

Isaiah 66:12

For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.

Isaiah 66:13

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 66:14

When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.

Matthew 28:8

So they hurried away from the tomb in fear and great joy, and ran to tell His disciples.

Luke 24:41

While they were still in disbelief because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

Luke 24:51

While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

Luke 24:52

And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

Luke 24:53

praising God continually in the temple.

Acts 2:46

With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,

Acts 13:52

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

1 Peter 1:8

Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

John 4:14

But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

Job 34:29

But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

Psalms 146:2

I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

Isaiah 12:2

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 12:3

With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,

Isaiah 12:4

and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.

Isaiah 51:11

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

Isaiah 54:7

“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.

Isaiah 54:8

In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

Isaiah 65:18

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

Isaiah 65:19

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.

Habakkuk 3:17

Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

Habakkuk 3:18

yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

Luke 10:42

But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 16:25

But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Luke 19:26

He replied, ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

Acts 5:41

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

Acts 16:25

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Acts 20:23

I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.

Acts 20:24

But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

Romans 8:36

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Romans 8:38

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

Romans 8:39

neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Thessalonians 3:7

For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.

1 Thessalonians 3:8

For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 3:9

How can we adequately thank God for you in return for our great joy over you in His presence?

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

Hebrews 6:18

Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

Hebrews 10:34

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

1 Peter 4:13

But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.