John 16:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν λύπην μὲν νῦν ἔχετε: πάλιν δὲ ὄψομαι ὑμᾶς, καὶ χαρήσεται ὑμῶν ἡ καρδία, καὶ τὴν χαρὰν ὑμῶν οὐδεὶς αἴρει ἀφʼ ὑμῶν.

Transliteration

And you oun lypēn men now echete: again but opsomai you, and charēsetai of you the kardia, and the charan of you no one airei aph' you.

Grammar Details

• Καὶ: conjunction - and
• ὑμεῖς: personal pronoun, nominative, plural - you
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore
• *lypēn*: noun, accusative, feminine, singular - sorrow
• *men*: particle indicating contrast with following clause - indeed
• νῦν: adverb - now
• *echete*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you have
• πάλιν: adverb - again
• δὲ: contrastive particle - but
• *opsomai*: future middle indicative, 1st person singular - I will see
• ὑμᾶς: personal pronoun, accusative, plural - you
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• *charēsetai*: future passive indicative, 3rd person singular - will rejoice
• ὑμῶν: personal pronoun, genitive, plural - you
• ἡ: definite article, nominative, feminine, singular - the
• *kardia*: noun, nominative, feminine, singular - heart
• τὴν: definite article, accusative, feminine, singular - the
• *charan*: noun, accusative, feminine, singular - joy
• οὐδεὶς: pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - no one
• *airei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - takes away
• ἀφʼ: preposition - from

Word Meanings

• *oun*: therefore/then/consequently
• *lypēn*: sorrow/grief/pain
• *men*: indeed/on the one hand (contrasted with *de* - 'but')
• *echete*: you have/you experience
• *opsomai*: I will see/I will behold
• *charēsetai*: will rejoice/will be glad
• *kardia*: heart/inner self/mind
• *charan*: joy/gladness
• *airei*: takes away/removes/lifts

Referenced Verses

• John 16:6 : 6 Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.
• 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
• Acts 13:52 : 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
• John 16:16 : 16 In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”
• 1 Pet 4:13-14 : 13 But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.
• Acts 2:46 : 46 Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,
• 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,
• Heb 6:18 : 18 so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
• Heb 10:34 : 34 For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.
• John 16:20 : 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.
• John 20:19-20 : 19 Jesus’ Appearance to the Disciples On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them,“Peace be with you.” 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
• John 21:7 : 7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter,“It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment(for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.
• Acts 16:25 : 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.
• Acts 20:23-24 : 23 except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me. 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
• Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,“For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith. 8 For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord. 9 For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?
• Job 34:29 : 29 But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
• Ps 146:2 : 2 I will praise the LORD as long as I live! I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist!
• Isa 12:2-4 : 2 Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the LORD gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer.” 3 Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of deliverance. 4 At that time you will say:“Praise the LORD! Ask him for help! Publicize his mighty acts among the nations! Make it known that he is unique!
• Isa 25:9 : 9 At that time they will say,“Look, here is our God! We waited for him and he delivered us. Here is the LORD! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”
• Isa 51:11-12 : 11 Those whom the LORD has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear. 12 “I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
• Isa 54:7-8 : 7 “For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you. 8 In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the LORD.
• Isa 65:13-14 : 13 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated! 14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.
• Isa 65:18-19 : 18 But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness. 19 Jerusalem will bring me joy, and my people will bring me happiness. The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow will never be heard in her again.
• Isa 66:9-9 : 9 “Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the LORD.“Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God. 10 Be happy for Jerusalem and rejoice with her, all you who love her! Share in her great joy, all you who have mourned over her! 11 For you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts. 12 For this is what the LORD says:“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river, the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. You will nurse from her breast and be carried at her side; you will play on her knees. 13 As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.” 14 When you see this, you will be happy, and you will be revived. The LORD will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies.
• Hab 3:17-18 : 17 When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls, 18 I will rejoice because of the LORD; I will be happy because of the God who delivers me!
• Matt 28:8 : 8 So they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
• Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”
• 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.
• Luke 19:26 : 26 ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
• Luke 24:41 : 41 And while they still could not believe it(because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them,“Do you have anything here to eat?”
• Luke 24:51-53 : 51 Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven. 52 So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.
• John 4:14 : 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 14:1 : 1 Jesus’ Parting Words to His Disciples“Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.
• John 14:27 : 27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.