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2John 1:4
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2 Corinthians 2 9
For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
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Psalms 31:9-11
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
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2 Corinthians 2 3-2 Corinthians 2 4
And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
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Jude 1:3
Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
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2 Corinthians 7 10-2 Corinthians 7 11
For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
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Matthew 26:75
Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him,“ Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.
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2 Corinthians 1 14
as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
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Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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Proverbs 9:8-9
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
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2 Corinthians 8 16
But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
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Luke 22:44
Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
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1 Thessalonians 3 8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
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Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
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James 4:9-10
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Judges 2:4-5
When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
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Romans 1:12
that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
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Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
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Psalms 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
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2 Corinthians 5 2
For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
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Psalms 38:18
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
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Psalms 126:5-6
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
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Psalms 51:1
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
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1 Thessalonians 3 6
But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,
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Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
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James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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Psalms 6:1-6
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh— how long?Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
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Jeremiah 31:18-20
“ I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus,‘ You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
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Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
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Colossians 2:5
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.