| Ecclesiastes 2 22 |
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? |
| Ecclesiastes 2 11 |
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. |
| Ezekiel 16 5 |
None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. |
| Acts 2 26 |
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: |
| Hebrews 10 34 |
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. |
| Ecclesiastes 8 15 |
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 3 |
I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. |
| Ecclesiastes 3 22 |
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? |
| Isaiah 49 4 |
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. |
| Deuteronomy 30 9 |
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: |
| Isaiah 65 14 |
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. |
| Psalms 16 9 |
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. |
| John 6 27 |
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 23 |
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. |
| Revelation 18 7 |
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. |
| 2 Corinthians 7 7 |
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. |
| John 16 21 |
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. |
| Proverbs 8 31 |
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. |
| Psalms 90 17 |
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. |
| John 16 22 |
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. |
| Deuteronomy 28 47 |
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; |
| Isaiah 9 3 |
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. |
| Nehemiah 2 2 |
Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, |
| Ecclesiastes 3 11 |
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. |
| John 4 38 |
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. |
| Psalms 92 4 |
For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. |
| Exodus 35 35 |
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work. |
| Hebrews 12 11 |
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. |
| Psalms 63 5 |
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: |
| Psalms 30 11 |
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; |
| Isaiah 47 8 |
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: |
| Ezekiel 24 25 |
Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters, |
| Jeremiah 20 18 |
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? |
| Job 20 18 |
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. |
| 1 Peter 1 6 |
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: |
| Psalms 38 9 |
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. |
| Job 41 22 |
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 18 |
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. |
| Nehemiah 12 43 |
Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off. |
| Genesis 3 16 |
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. |
| 2 Timothy 1 4 |
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; |
| Nehemiah 9 31 |
Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God. |
| Psalms 4 7 |
Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. |
| Colossians 1 19 |
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; |
| Ecclesiastes 1 13 |
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. |
| 1 Corinthians 7 30 |
And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; |
| Ecclesiastes 4 4 |
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. |
| 1 Samuel 2 33 |
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age. |
| Deuteronomy 28 4 |
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. |
| Genesis 6 6 |
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. |