John 16:22
Good News Translation
That is how it is with you: now you are sad, but I will see you again, and your hearts will be filled with gladness, the kind of gladness that no one can take away from you.

New Revised Standard Version
So you have pain now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Contemporary English Version
You are now very sad. But later I will see you, and you will be so happy that no one will be able to change the way you feel.

New American Bible
So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

ye now.

John 16:6,20 But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. . . .

But.

John 14:1,27 Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me. . . .

John 20:19,20 Now when it was late the same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them: Peace be to you. . . .

John 21:7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter: It is the Lord. Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, girt his coat about him (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea.

Isaiah 25:9 And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.

Isaiah 65:13,14 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. . . .

Isaiah 66:9-14 Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, myself bring forth, saith the Lord? shall I, that give generation to others, be barren, saith the Lord thy God? . . .

Matthew 28:8 And they went out quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, running to tell his disciples.

Luke 24:41,51-53 But while they yet believed not and wondered for joy, he said: Have you here any thing to eat? . . .

Acts 2:46 And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart:

Acts 13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.

1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

and your.

John 4:14 But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

Job 34:29 For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

Psalm 146:2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:

Isaiah 12:2-4 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation. . . .

Isaiah 51:11,12 And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return, and shall come into Sion singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning shall flee away. . . .

Isaiah 54:7,8 For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. . . .

Isaiah 65:18,19 But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy. . . .

Habakkuk 3:17,18 For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields shall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls. . . .

Luke 10:42 But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Luke 16:25 And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.

Luke 19:26 But I say to you that to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.

Acts 5:41 And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

Acts 16:25 And at midnight, Paul and Silas, praying, praised God. And they that were in prison heard them.

Acts 20:23,24 Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem. . . .

Romans 8:35-39 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:7-9 Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith. . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,

Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

Hebrews 10:34 For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

1 Peter 4:13,14 But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. . . .

Context
Grief to Joy
21A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you. 23And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.…
Cross References
Psalm 33:21
For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in his holy name we have trusted.

Jeremiah 31:12
And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.

John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me.

John 14:19
Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live.

John 16:6
But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

John 16:16
A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father.

John 20:20
And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:10
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

John 16:21
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