- Psalm 30:11 (NIV):
“You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,“
- Isaiah 61:3 (NIV):
“and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.“
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV):
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!“
- Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV):
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.“
- Romans 6:4 (NIV):
“We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.“
- John 11:25-26 (NIV):
“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?’“
- Psalm 126:5 (NIV):
“Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.“
- Isaiah 43:19 (NIV):
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.“
- Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV):
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.“
- Joel 2:25-26 (NIV):
“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm— my great army that I sent among you. You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.“
- Isaiah 35:10 (NIV):
“and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.“
- Revelation 21:5 (NIV):
“He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these wo