JOY Acts 2:28

" 'You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.' "

Psalm 16
Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the LORD, "You are my Lord*; apart from you I have no good thing." I say of the holy people who are in the land, "They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight." Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips. LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. 

*In most English translations of the Old Testament, the divine name YHWH (Yahweh) is rendered "LORD" in capital letters to distinguish it from another Hebrew word, Adonai, which is rendered "Lord" in small letters. Whenever the two names stand together they are rendered "Sovereign LORD".

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SALVATION Psalm 132:13-16 Part 2 of 2

For the LORD has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling, saying, "This is my resting place for ever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired it. I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor I will satisfy with food. I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her faithful people will ever sing for joy."

her poor I will satisfy with food 
Psalm 107:8-9  Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Psalm 147:14  He grants peace to your borders and satisfies you with the finest of wheat.

I will clothe her priests with salvation 
2 Chronicles 6:41  "Now arise, LORD God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. May your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness."

and her faithful people will ever sing for joy 
Job 8:21  "He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy."
Psalm 149:5  Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds. 

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SALVATION Psalm 132:13-16 Part 1 of 2

For the LORD has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling, saying, "This is my resting place for ever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired it. I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor I will satisfy with food. I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her faithful people will ever sing for joy."

For the LORD has chosen Zion 
Exodus 15:17  "You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance--the place, LORD, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, Lord*, your hands established."
Psalm 48:1-2  Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain. Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.
Psalm 68:15-16  Mount Bashan, majestic mountain, Mount Bashan, rugged mountain, why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the LORD himself will dwell forever?

he has desired it for his dwelling 
1 Kings 8:13  "I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever."

This is my resting place for ever and ever 
Psalm 132:8  " 'Arise, LORD, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.' "

here I will sit enthroned 
2 Samuel 6:2  He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.
Psalm 80:1  Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Awaken your might; come and save us.
 

*In most English translations of the Old Testament, the divine name YHWH (Yahweh) is rendered "LORD" in capital letters to distinguish it from another Hebrew word, Adonai, which is rendered "Lord" in small letters. Whenever the two names stand together they are rendered "Sovereign LORD".

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JOY John 17:13-16

"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it."

I am coming to you now 
John 17:11  "I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one."

so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them 
John 15:11  "I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete."

I have given them your word and the world has hated them 
John 15:19  "If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."

for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world 
John 17:16  "They are not of the world, even as I am not of it."
John 8:23  But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world."
John 1:12  Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--...

protect them from the evil one 
Matthew 5:37  "All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
Matthew 6:13  "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
1 John 5:19  We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

They are not of the world, even as I am not of it 
John 17:14  "I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world."

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SALVATION Psalm 119:174-176

I long for your salvation, LORD, and your law gives me delight. Let me live that I may praise you, and may your laws sustain me. I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.

I long for your salvation, LORD 
Psalm 119:166  I wait for your salvation, LORD, and I follow your commands.

and your law gives me delight 
Psalm 119:16  I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.
Psalm 119:24  Your statutes are my delight; they are my counselors.

Let me live that I may praise you 
Psalm 119:116  Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.
Psalm 119:159  See how I love your precepts; preserve my life, LORD, in accordance with your love.
Isaiah 55:3  "Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David."

I have strayed like a lost sheep 
Psalm 119:10  I seek you with all of my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.
Psalm 95:10  "For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.' "
Jeremiah 50:17  "Israel is a scattered flock that lions have chased away. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria; the last to crush their bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon."
Ezekiel 34:11  " 'For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.' "
Luke 15:4  "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?"

for I have not forgotten your commands 
Psalm 44:17  All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.

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JOY John 16:20-24 Part 3 of 3

"Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete."

Now is your time of grief 
John 16:6  "Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things."

but I will see you again and you will rejoice 
John 16:16  Jesus went on to say, "In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me." 

and no one will take away your joy 
Jeremiah 31:12  "They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD--the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more." 

In that day you will no longer ask me anything 
John 16:26  "In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf."
John 14:20  "On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you."

my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name 
Matthew 7:7-8  "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."

Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete 
John 3:29  "The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 

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JOY John 16:20-24 Part 2 of 3

"Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete."

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come 
Isaiah 13:8  Terror will seize them, pain and anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.
Isaiah 21:3  At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.
Isaiah 26:17  As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, LORD.
Micah 4:9  Why do you now cry aloud--have you no king? Has your ruler perished, that pain seizes you like that of woman in labor? 
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3  Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 

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JOY John 16:20-24 Part 1 of 3

"Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete."

you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices 
Mark 16:9-10  When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him and who were mourning and weeping.
Luke 23:27  A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.

You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy 
John 20:20  After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

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SALVATION Psalm 119:165-166

Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble. I wait for your salvation, LORD, and I follow your commands.

Great peace have those who love your law 
Psalm 37:11  But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity.
Isaiah 26:3  You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Isaiah 26:12  LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.
Isaiah 27:5  "Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me."
Isaiah 32:17  The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 57:18-19  "I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel's mourners, creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near," says the LORD. "And I will heal them."
Isaiah 66:12  For this is what the LORD says: "I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees."

and nothing can make them stumble 
Psalm 119:11  I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 37:23-24  The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
1 John 2:10  Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.

I wait for your salvation, LORD 
Psalm 119:81  My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.

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JOY John 15:9-12

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you."

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you 
John 17:22-26  "I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one--I in them and you in me--so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."

If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love 
John 14:15  "If you love me, keep my commands."

I have told you this so that your joy may be complete 
John 3:29  "The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete."

Love each other as I have loved you 
John 15:17  "This is my command: Love each other."
John 13:34-35  "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

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SALVATION Psalm 119:155-156

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek out your decrees. Your compassion, LORD, is great; preserve my life according to your laws.

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek out your decrees 
Psalm 119:94  Save me, for I am yours; I have sought out your precepts.
Psalm 119:118  You reject all who stray from your decrees, for their delusions come to nothing.

Your compassion, LORD, is great 
Nehemiah 9:27  "So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies."
James 5:11  As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

preserve my life 
Psalm 119:25  I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word.

according to your laws 
Psalm 119:149  Hear my voice in accordance with your love; preserve my life, LORD, according to your laws.

2 Peter 3:9  The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.      

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JOY John 3:29

"The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete."

The bride belongs to the bridegroom 
Matthew 9:15  Jesus answered, "How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast."

That joy is mine and it is now complete 
John 16:24  "Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete."
John 17:13  "I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them."
Philippians 2:1-2  Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
1 John 1:4  We write this to make our joy complete.
2 John 12  I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk to you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

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SALVATION Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail, looking for your salvation, looking for your righteous promise.

My eyes fail 
Isaiah 38:14  "I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!"

looking for your salvation 
Psalm 119:81  My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.

looking for your righteous promise 
Psalm 119:82  My eyes fail, looking for your promise; I say, "When will you comfort me?"

Romans 6:19-23  I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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JOY Luke 24:50-53

When he had led them out to the village of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.

When he had led them out to the village of Bethany 
Matthew 21:17  And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.

While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven 
2 Kings 2:11  As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
Acts 1:9-11  After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."

And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. 
Acts 2:46-47  Everyday they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Acts 5:42  Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

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SALVATION Psalm 119:81

 My soul faints longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.

My soul faints with longing 
Psalm 119:20  My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.
Psalm 84:2  My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

for your salvation 
Psalm 119:123  My eyes fail, looking for your salvation, looking for your righteous promise.

but I have put my hope in your word 
Psalm 119:43  Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws.

Romans 3:21-26  But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood--to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished--he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

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JOY Luke 24:36-44 Part 4 of 4

While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence. He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."

that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms 
Luke 24:27  And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
Psalm 2
Psalm 16
Psalm 22
Psalm 69
Psalm 72
Psalm 110
Psalm 118  

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JOY Luke 24:36-44 Part 3 of 4

While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence. He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."

Everything must be fulfilled 
Matthew 1:22-23  All this took place to fulfill what the Lord has said through the prophet: "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" (which means "God with us").
Matthew 16:21  From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. 
Luke 9:22  And he said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." 

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JOY Luke 24:36-44 Part 2 of 4

While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence. He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."

This is what I told you while I was still with you 
Luke 9:44-45  "Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men." But they did not understand what this meant. It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask him about it. 
Luke 18:31-34  Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him; they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again." The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about. 

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JOY Luke 24:36-44 Part 1 of 4

While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence. He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."

Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see 
John 20:27  Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
1 John 1:1  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched--this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.

and he took it and ate it in their presence 
Acts 10:41  "He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen--by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead."

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SALVATION Psalm 119:41

May your unfailing love come to me, LORD, your salvation, according to your promise; ...

May your unfailing love come to me, LORD 
Psalm 6:4  Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
Psalm 119:64  The earth is filled with your love, LORD; teach me your decrees.
Psalm 119:88  In your unfailing love preserve my life, that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.
Psalm 119:124  Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees.
Psalm 119:149  Hear my voice in accordance with your love; preserve my life, LORD, according to your laws.
Psalm 119:159  See how I love your precepts; preserve my life, LORD, in accordance with your love.

your salvation, according to your promise 
Psalm 119:76  May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant.
Psalm 119:116  Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.
Psalm 119:154  Defend my cause and redeem me; preserve my life according to your promise.
Psalm 119:170  May my supplication come before you; deliver me according to your promise.

John 14:6  Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

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JOY Luke 10:21

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do."

1 Corinthians 1:26-31  Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong; God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: "Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord." (Jeremiah 9:24)

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SALVATION Psalm 118:21

I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation.

I will give you thanks 
Psalm 118:1  Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

for you answered me 
Psalm 118:5-7  When hard pressed, I cried to the LORD; he brought me into a spacious place. The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? The LORD is with me; he is my helper. I look in triumph on my enemies.

you have become my salvation 
Psalm 27:1  The LORD is my light and my salvation--whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life--of whom shall I be afraid?

Romans 1:16-17  For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." (Habakkuk 2:4)

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JOY Luke 10:17-20 Part 2 of 2

The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name." He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."  

I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions 
Mark 16:18  "... they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well." (only by the authority of Jesus and in his name)
Acts 28:3-5  Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer, for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live." But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.

rejoice that your names are written in heaven 
Revelation 20:12  And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
Revelation 20:15  Anyone whose name was not found in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. 

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JOY Luke 10:17-20 Part 1 of 2

The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name." He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." 

The seventy-two returned with joy 
Luke 10:1  After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.

Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name 
Mark 16:17  "And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; ..."

I saw Satan 
Matthew 4:10  Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.' "

fall like lightning from heaven 
Isaiah 14:12  How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
Revelation 9:1  The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
Revelation 12:7-9  Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth and his angels with him.

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SALVATION Psalm 118:14

The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation.

The LORD is my strength and my defense 
Exodus 15:2  "The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him."

he has become my salvation 
Psalm 62:1-2  Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Isaiah 12:2  "Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation."

1 John 4:14-15  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.

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JOY Luke 8:13

"Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for awhile, but in the time of testing they fall away. 

Matthew 11:4-6  Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me."
James 2:14-17  What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
James 2:25-26  In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the soul is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

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SALVATION Psalm 98:3

He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel 
1 Chronicles 16:15  He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations, the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.

all the ends of the earth 
Genesis 49:10  "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his."
Psalm 48:10  Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.

have seen the salvation of our God 
Psalm 50:23  "Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, and to the blameless I will show my salvation."

John 12:46-47  "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world."

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JOY Luke 6:22-23

"Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets." 

Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you 
John 9:22  His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
John 16:2  "They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God."

and insult you 
Isaiah 51:7  "Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults."

because of the Son of Man 
John 15:21  "They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me."

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy 
Matthew 5:12  "Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

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SALVATION Psalm 98:2

The LORD has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations.

The LORD has made his salvation known 
Isaiah 52:10  The LORD will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Luke 3:6  " 'And all people will see God's salvation.' "

and revealed his righteousness 
Psalm 97:6  The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all peoples see his glory.

to the nations 
Psalm 67:1-2  May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us--so that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.
Psalm 77:14  You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.
Psalm 46:10  He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

Titus 2:11-14  For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope--the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.

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JOY Luke 2:10-11 Part 2 of 2

But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord."

He is the Messiah 
Matthew 1:16  ... and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.
Matthew 16:16  Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."
Matthew 16:20  Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
John 11:27  "Yes, Lord," she replied, "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."
Acts 2:36  "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah."
Acts 3:19-20  "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you--even Jesus."
Acts 9:22  Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.

the Lord 
John 13:13  "You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord', and rightly so, for that is what I am."

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JOY Luke 2:10-11 Part 1 of 2

But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord."

But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid." 
Matthew 14:27  But Jesus immediately said to them: "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid."

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you 
Matthew 1:21  "She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
John 3:17  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 4:42  They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."
Acts 5:31  "God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins."
Acts 13:23  "From this man's descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised."
Romans 11:13-14  I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
1 Timothy 4:10  That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.
1 John 4:14  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

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