Ecclesiastes 3:4
"A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
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- Romans 12:15
"Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 30:5
"For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
Read in chapter → - James 4:9
"Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 126:1
"When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream."
Read in chapter → - John 16:20
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 126:5
"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 7:10
"For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death."
Read in chapter → - Luke 6:21
"Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh."
Read in chapter → - Luke 1:58
"And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 15:20
"And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances."
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