Romans 12:12:
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
(NIV)
Rejoice and exult in hope; be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation; be constant in prayer.
(AMP)
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
(KJV)
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That house, in which the soul-bride has married her Husband Lord - in that house, O my companions, sing the songs of rejoicing.
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Yet in all our rejoicing let us neither express, nor cherish, any harsh feeling towards any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us.
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Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
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But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
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Luke 15:7:
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
(NIV)
Thus, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one [especially] wicked person who repents (changes his mind, abhorring his errors and misdeeds, and determines to enter upon a better course of life) than over ninety-nine righteous persons who have no need of repentance.
(AMP)
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
(KJV)
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do
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