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 was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the corners of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; a great company shall return there.

In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping. They shall go and seek Jehovah their God.

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.

And I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born.

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

Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.

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And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,

For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations,

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Also you shall not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.