Matthew 5:4
4“Blessed are athose who mourn, for they shall be comforted.John 11:35
35 bJesus wept.John 16:20-21
20Truly, truly, I say to you, cyou will weep and lament, but dthe world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but eyour sorrow will turn into joy. 21 fWhen a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.Romans 9:1-3
God’s Sovereign Choice
1 gI am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— 2that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3For hI could wish that I myself were iaccursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, ▼▼Or brothers and sisters
my kinsmen kaccording to the flesh. 2 Corinthians 1:4-6
4 lwho comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5For as we share abundantly in mChrist’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. ▼▼Or For as the sufferings of Christ abound for us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ
6 oIf we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 2 Corinthians 6:10
10 pas sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; qas poor, yet making many rich; ras having nothing, syet possessing everything.2 Corinthians 7:10-11
10For tgodly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas uworldly grief produces death. 11For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, vwhat zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
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