Ecclesiastes 7:3

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Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

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Jeremiah 16:8

Bible References

Is better

Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.

They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing.

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.

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.

And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:

And in these days I Daniel was mourning three weeks of days.

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.

Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

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.

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.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.

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And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;

For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;

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.

Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials;

General references

And to the house of drinking thou shalt not go in to sit with them to eat and to drink.