Luke 6:21
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
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Luke 6:21
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
Job 8:21
He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
Psalms 28:7
Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
Psalms 30:12
to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Psalms 126:1
When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
Isaiah 12:1
In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Matthew 9:15
Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
John 16:21
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
John 16:24
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
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Judges 2:5
They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
1 Samuel 7:6
They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Psalms 6:7
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Psalms 6:8
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalms 38:18
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
Proverbs 17:10
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.
Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
Luke 22:62
He went out, and wept bitterly.
2 Corinthians 7:9
I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
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1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
Psalms 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
Psalms 107:8
Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
Psalms 146:7
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
Ezekiel 34:29
I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more.
John 6:11
Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down, likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
John 6:12
When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”
John 6:13
So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
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Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
Psalms 78:1
Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Proverbs 8:6
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
Matthew 5:2
He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
Matthew 13:35
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
Luke 6:26
Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
Acts 8:35
Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.
Acts 10:34
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
Acts 18:14
But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
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Job 5:11
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Luke 1:52
He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.
James 1:9
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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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.
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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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Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Isaiah 44:4
and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
Jeremiah 31:14
I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 31:25
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
Amos 8:11
Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
Amos 8:12
They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.
Amos 8:13
In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
John 4:10
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 4:14
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
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Psalms 17:15
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Psalms 63:3
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
Psalms 63:4
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
Psalms 63:5
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
Psalms 65:4
Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
Isaiah 25:6
In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring;
Isaiah 49:9
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
Isaiah 65:14
Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.
Jeremiah 31:13
Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
John 7:37
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
John 7:38
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
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Daniel 9:17
“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
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Daniel 9:18
My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
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Mark 10:28
Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all and have followed you.”
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Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
Luke 1:14
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.
Luke 1:58
Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.
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Luke 6:28
bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
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Isaiah 2:4
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Luke 7:32
They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’
Luke 15:25
“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
1 Corinthians 7:30
and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Thessalonians 2:17
comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
Revelation 18:7
However much she glorified herself and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
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Luke 7:44
Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.
Luke 7:45
You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
Luke 7:46
You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”
Luke 7:48
He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
Luke 7:49
Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
Luke 7:50
He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
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Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Matthew 5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 5:11
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Mark 10:30
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
John 16:33
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
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1 Corinthians 12:1
Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
1 Corinthians 12:2
You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:5
There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.
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Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 10:23
But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.
Matthew 10:24
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
Matthew 10:25
It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
Matthew 10:38
He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me.
Matthew 10:39
He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 16:25
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
Mark 10:29
Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
Luke 7:13
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Don’t cry.”
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
2 Timothy 2:11
This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.
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Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 30:19
For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 66:11
that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”
Isaiah 66:12
For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
2 Corinthians 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
1 Thessalonians 5:16
Always rejoice.
Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
1 Peter 5:10
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
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Luke 6:17
He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,
Ephesians 6:19
Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
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Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?
Jeremiah 50:4
“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.
Hosea 12:4
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us—
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
Hebrews 5:7
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
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