Sadness

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, — read the full passage →

my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age;

And after eight days, again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them; Jesus cometh, the doors having been shut, and he stood in the midst, and said, `Peace to you!' — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

who <FI>is<Fi> he that is condemning? Christ <FI>is<Fi> He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God--who also doth intercede for us.

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

ye heard that I said to you--I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said--I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,

and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God <FI>is<Fi> with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them--their God, — read the full passage →

they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, — read the full passage →

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send me.'

`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, `Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you, — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world; — read the full passage →