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 1:2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
• 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• Rom 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• Rom 5:2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Matt 5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
• John 16:33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
• Isa 61:3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
• John 16:22And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
• 1 Pet 4:12–13Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
• Ps 119:28My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
• Matt 11:28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Cor 4:9–13For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
• Acts 14:22Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
• Luke 10:20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
• Rom 5:11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• Heb 12:7–11If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
• Heb 11:35–38Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
• Ps 95:1O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
• 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
• Job 9:27–28If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
• Jas 4:9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
• 1 Pet 1:7–8That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
• 1 Sam 2:1And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
• Jas 1:9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
• 2 Cor 4:7–11But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
• 2 Cor 6:10As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
• Isa 12:2–3Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
• 2 Cor 12:9–10And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
• Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
• Ps 35:10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
• Ps 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
• Lam 3:32–33But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
• 1 Th 1:6And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
• Ps 9:14That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
• Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

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