Ecclesiastes 7:3
Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good.
2 Corinthians 7:9-11
Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us.
Psalm 119:67
Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.
Psalm 119:71
Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.
Psalm 126:5-6
They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing.
Jeremiah 31:8-9
Behold me bringing them from the land of the north, and I gathered them from the thighs of the earth, with them the blind and the lame, her being Pregnant, and her bringing forth together: a great convocation shall turn back hither.
Jeremiah 31:15-20
Thus said Jehovah, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping of bitterness; Rachel, weeping for her sons, refused to be comforted for her sons, for they are not
Jeremiah 50:4-5
In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God.
Daniel 9:3-19
And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:
Daniel 10:2-3
And in these days I Daniel was mourning three weeks of days.
Daniel 10:19
And he will say, Thou shalt not fear, O man of desires: peace to thee; be strong, and be strong. And in his speaking with me I was strengthened, and saying, My lord shall speak; for thou didst strengthen me.
Zechariah 12:10-14
And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born.
Luke 6:21
Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.
Luke 6:25
Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.
John 16:20-22
Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy.
Romans 5:3-4
And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;
2 Corinthians 4:17
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
Hebrews 12:10-11
For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.
James 1:2-4
Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials;
James 4:8-10
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.