Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.
Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.
And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.
He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.
He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.
Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy,
Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.
Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.
If then you have done what is true and upright to Jerubbaal and his family this day, may you have joy in Abimelech, and may he have joy in you;
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
And the seventy came back with joy, saying, Lord, even the evil spirits are under our power in your name.
In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
And when he said these things, those who were against him were shamed, and all the people were full of joy because of the great things which were done by him.
For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.
Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.
For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy.
I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.
And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.
And when he came near the foot of the Mountain of Olives, all the disciples with loud voices gave praise to God with joy, because of all the great works which they had seen;
And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy.
And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people:
And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?
And they gave him worship and went back to Jerusalem with great joy.
Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.
And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.
And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy;
And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;
The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.
And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
And when they saw the star they were full of joy.
His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.
His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.
And they went away quickly, with fear and great joy, to give his disciples the news.
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?
And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.
And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.
And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.
And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.
So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
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