1 Peter 1:6

Believers can rejoice greatly even while grieved by various trials, because suffering is temporary and purposeful. Joy and grief can coexist in the Christian life.

Cross-references · 40

• Jas 1:2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
• 1 Pet 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
• Rom 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
• Rom 5:2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
• Matt 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
• John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
• Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
• John 16:22So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
• 1 Pet 4:12–13Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
• Ps 119:28My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.
• Matt 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Cor 4:9–13For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
• Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
• Luke 10:20Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
• Rom 5:11Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• Heb 12:7–11Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
• Heb 11:35–38Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
• Ps 95:1Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
• 2 Cor 4:17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
• Job 9:27–28If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
• Jas 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
• 1 Pet 1:7–8so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Sam 2:1At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD in whom my horn is exalted. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.
• Jas 1:9The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
• 2 Cor 4:7–11Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
• 2 Cor 6:10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
• Isa 12:2–3Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
• 2 Cor 12:9–10But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• Phil 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
• Ps 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
• Ps 69:20Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
• Lam 3:32–33Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
• 1 Th 1:6And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.
• Ps 9:14that I may declare all Your praises—that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
• Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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