²⁶ since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

²⁶ And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or `one' member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

¹⁴ while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

² Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

¹³ Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

³ I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

¹ Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

⁶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,

² that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

¹³ Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁷ And David spake unto Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my `sad' countenance, and be of good cheer;

²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.

³ to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

²⁸ Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

³⁷ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.

³⁵ Jesus wept.

³⁶ The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!

³⁹ And `the soul of' king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.