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Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

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Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Luke 6:25
Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

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Genesis 40:7
He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

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Genesis 43:34
He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

Ecclesiastes 10:19
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

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2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

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Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Isaiah 22:13
and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Amos 6:4
who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall,

Amos 6:5
who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Amos 6:6
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

1 Peter 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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