Time To Laugh

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

`Happy those hungering now--because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now--because ye shall laugh.

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — 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.

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now <FI>is<Fi> a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

`Woe to you who have been filled--because ye shall hunger. `Woe to you who are laughing now--because ye shall mourn and weep.

The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it <FI>is<Fi> from the hand of God.

Strength and honour <FI>are<Fi> her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day.

The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

Then filled <FI>with<Fi> laughter is our mouth, And our tongue <FI>with<Fi> singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.'

Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me <FI>with<Fi> joy.

He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

and it hath come to pass, the ark of Jehovah hath come in to the city of David, and Michal daughter of Saul, hath looked through the window, and seeth king David moving and dancing before Jehovah, and despiseth him in her heart.

`Thou dost not murder.

and Sarah saith, `God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men--together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it <FI>is<Fi> a gift of God.

A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.

A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where <FI>is<Fi> this--the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It <FI>is<Fi> a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

What advantage <FI>is<Fi> to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy <FI>is<Fi> affliction.

While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

And David is dancing with all strength before Jehovah, and David is girded with a linen ephod,

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; — read the full passage →

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, — read the full passage →

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

And dost thou think this, O man, who art judging those who such things are practising, and art doing them, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.

And at kings it doth scoff, And princes <FI>are<Fi> a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it.

In the year of the coming in of Tartan to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Asshur sendeth him, and he fighteth against Ashdod, and captureth it, — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul, — read the full passage →

The purposes of the diligent <FI>are<Fi> only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.

Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; — read the full passage →

I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

To number our days aright let <FI>us<Fi> know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.

To the Overseer, on the octave. --A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men: — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads; — read the full passage →

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary, — read the full passage →

how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving--to be spoken through the Lord--by those having heard was confirmed to us,

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, <FI>is<Fi> honour and glory--to the ages of the ages! Amen.

and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

when the Christ--our life--may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth--in him;

Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen <FI>are<Fi> temporary, but the things not seen <FI>are<Fi> age-during.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.'

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

And he went forth thence, and came to his own country, and his disciples do follow him, — read the full passage →

and they were laughing at him. And he, having put all forth, doth take the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goeth in where the child is lying,

and saying--`Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'

he saith to them, `Withdraw, for the damsel did not die, but doth sleep,' and they were deriding him;

`And--praying--ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you--they have their reward!

For yet the vision <FI>is<Fi> for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

Again do I build thee, And thou hast been built, O virgin of Israel, Again thou puttest on thy tabrets, And hast gone out in the chorus of the playful.

Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred <FI>times<Fi> , and prolonging <FI>himself<Fi> for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him. — read the full passage →

For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So <FI>is<Fi> the laughter of a fool, even this <FI>is<Fi> vanity.

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth <FI>it<Fi> unto his heart.

For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.

Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil. — read the full passage →