I wrote this very thing so that when I came I wouldn’t have pain from those who ought to give me joy, because I am confident about all of you that my joy will also be yours.

“I have spoken these things to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

for

the training of the body has a limited benefit,
but godliness is beneficial in every way,
since it holds promise for the present life
and also for the life to come.

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of Me will find it.

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

The one who has the Son has life. The one who doesn’t have the Son of God does not have life.

that life was revealed,
and we have seen it
and we testify and declare to you
the eternal life that was with the Father
and was revealed to us—

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it.

Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

So there was great joy in that city.

And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

When they had been sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, explaining in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they created great joy among all the brothers.

She recognized Peter’s voice, and because of her joy, she did not open the gate but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gateway.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

and that, by God’s will, I may come to you with joy and be refreshed together with you.

Love finds no joy in unrighteousness
but rejoices in the truth.