Rejoice, and be glad: for great is your reward in heaven: For so persecuted they the prophets which were before your days.

Rejoice ye then, and be glad: for behold, your reward is great in heaven. After this manner their fathers entreated the prophets.

but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's passions, that when his glory appeareth, ye may be merry and glad.

My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations,

And they departed from the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name.

For ye suffered also with my bonds, and took in worth the spoiling of your goods, and that with gladness, knowing in yourselves how that ye had in heaven a better, and an enduring substance.

For such one never sayeth, 'Where is God that made me? And that shineth upon us, that we might praise him in the night?

For the fig trees shall not be green, and the vines shall bear no fruit. The labour of the olive shall be but lost, and the land shall bring no corn: the sheep shall be taken out of the fold, and there shall be no cattle in the stalls. But as for me, I will be glad in the LORD, and will rejoice in God my Saviour.

Neither do we so, only: but also we rejoice in tribulation: For we know that tribulation bringeth patience,

Now joy I in my sufferings which I suffer, for you; and fulfill that which is behind of the passions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the congregation -

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord: and received the word in much affliction, with joy of the holy ghost: