John 16:22
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
John 16:6
Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.
1 Peter 1:8
You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
John 16:16
In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me."
Acts 2:46
Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,
Acts 13:52
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Job 34:29
But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
Psalm 146:2
I will praise the Lord as long as I live! I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist!
Isaiah 12:2-4
Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer."
Isaiah 25:9
At that time they will say, "Look, here is our God! We waited for him and he delivered us. Here is the Lord! We waited for him. Let's rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!"
Isaiah 51:11-12
Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.
Isaiah 54:7-8
"For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.
Isaiah 65:13-14
So this is what the sovereign Lord says: "Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
Isaiah 65:18-19
But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness.
Isaiah 66:9-14
"Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?" asks the Lord. "Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?" asks your God.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,
Matthew 28:8
So they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her."
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.
Luke 19:26
I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
Luke 24:41
And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
Luke 24:51-53
Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.
John 4:14
But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life."
John 14:1
"Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.
John 14:27
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.
John 16:20
I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.
John 20:19-20
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
John 21:7
Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.
Acts 5:41
So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.
Acts 16:25
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 20:23-24
except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.
Romans 8:35-39
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
1 Thessalonians 3:7-9
So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,
Hebrews 6:18
so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
Hebrews 10:34
For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.
1 Peter 4:13-14
But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.