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 1:2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Rom 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
• Rom 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Matt 5:12Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
• John 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
• Isa 61:3to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
• John 16:22Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
• 1 Pet 4:12–13Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
• Ps 119:28My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.
• Matt 11:28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Cor 4:9–13For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Luke 10:20Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
• Rom 5:11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• Heb 12:7–11It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
• Heb 11:35–38Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
• Ps 95:1Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
• 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
• Job 9:27–28If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
• Jas 4:9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
• 1 Pet 1:7–8that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• 1 Sam 2:1Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
• Jas 1:9But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
• 2 Cor 4:7–11But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
• 2 Cor 6:10as sorrowful, yet always 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 will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
• 2 Cor 12:9–10He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
• Ps 35:10All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
• Ps 69:20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
• Lam 3:32–33For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• 1 Th 1:6You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
• Ps 9:14that I may show all of your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
• Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
• Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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