1 Corinthians 7:30

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those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,

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  • Ps 30:5 : 5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest. 6 The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.
  • Eccl 3:4 : 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 he will swallow up death permanently. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the LORD has announced it!
  • Isa 30:19 : 19 For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem you will weep no more. When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy; when he hears it, he will respond to you.
  • Luke 6:21 : 21 “Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.“Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
  • Luke 6:25 : 25 “Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry.“Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said,‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.
  • John 16:22 : 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.
  • Rev 7:17 : 17 because the Lamb in the middle of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
  • Rev 18:7 : 7 As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself,‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’

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  • 1 Cor 7:31-32
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    31those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

    32And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

  • Ezek 7:12-13
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    12The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.

    13The customer will no longer pay the seller while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, will fail to preserve his life.

  • 2 Cor 6:9-10
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    9as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet– see!– we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

    10as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

  • Rom 12:15
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    15Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

  • Luke 7:32
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    32They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another,‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

  • Isa 24:7-8
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    7The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.

    8The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.

  • Jer 16:7
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    7No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.

  • Rev 18:11
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    11Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer–

  • 1 Tim 6:7-8
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    7For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.

    8But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.

  • Jas 4:9
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    9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

  • Eccl 7:2-4
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    2It is better to go to a funeral than a feast. For death is the destiny of every person, and the living should take this to heart.

    3Sorrow is better than laughter, because sober reflection is good for the heart.

    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of merrymaking.

  • 1 Thess 4:12-13
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    12In this way you will live a decent life before outsiders and not be in need.

    13The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

  • Luke 6:24-25
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    24“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your comfort already.

    25“Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry.“Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

  • Jas 4:13
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    13Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

  • John 16:20
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    20I 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.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

  • Luke 12:33
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    33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out– a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

  • 2 Cor 7:9-10
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    9Now I rejoice, not because you were made sad, but because you were made sad to the point of repentance. For you were made sad as God intended, so that you were not harmed in any way by us.

    10For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.

  • Ps 126:5
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    5Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

  • Luke 17:31
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    31On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

  • Matt 5:4
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    4“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

  • Rev 18:15
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    15The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

  • Jas 5:1
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    1Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.

  • Luke 6:21
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    21“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.“Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • Matt 9:15
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    15Jesus said to them,“The wedding guests cannot mourn while the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

  • Job 27:15
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    15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

  • Luke 12:15
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    15Then he said to them,“Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

  • Isa 22:12-13
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    12At that time the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

    13But look, there is outright celebration! You say,“Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep, eat meat and drink wine. Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

  • Eph 5:7
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    7Therefore do not be sharers with them,

  • Mark 13:16
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    16The one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

  • Jer 16:5
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    5“Moreover I, the LORD, tell you:‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, my love, and my compassion. I, the LORD, so affirm it!

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

  • Job 21:13
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    13They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

  • Joel 1:8
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    8A Call to Lament Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

  • Luke 17:28
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    28Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;