Jude 1:21
1:21 maintain
yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating
the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.
Job 20:5
20:5 that the elation of the wicked is brief,
the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
John 12:27
12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.
John 16:20-22
16:20 I tell you the solemn truth,
you will weep
and wail,
but the world will rejoice; you will be sad,
but your sadness will turn into
joy.
16:21 When a woman gives birth, she has distress
because her time
has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being
has been born into the world.
16:22 So also you have sorrow
now, but
I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.