Acts 20:19
I served the Lord with great humility and with tears,
although I was severely tested by the plots of the Jews.
Romans 9:1
I speak the truth in Christ – I am not lying, my conscience
confirms it in the Holy Spirit –
(2)
I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
(3)
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from
Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,
Philippians 3:18
For, as I have often told you before and now say again even
with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:4
For I wrote to you out of great distress and anguish of heart
and with many tears . . .
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
2 Timothy 1:4
Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be
filled with joy.
Acts 20:31
. . . Remember that for three years I never
stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
Acts 8:2
Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him.
Acts 20:37
They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him.
(38)
What grieved them most was his statement that they would
never see his face again.
Hebrews 5:7
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up
prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who
could save him from death, and he was heard because of his
reverent submission.
Matthew 26:37
. . . he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
(38)
Then he said to them, ‘My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow
to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.’
John 11:33
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along
with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and
troubled.
(34)
‘Where have you laid him?’ he asked. ‘Come and see,
Lord,’ they replied.
(35)
Jesus wept.
(36)
Then the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’
(37)
But some of them said, ‘Could not he who opened the eyes of
the blind man have kept this man from dying?’
(38)
Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a
cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
Luke 19:41
As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it
Job 30:25
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul
grieved for the poor?
Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a
time to dance,
Psalms 35:13
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled
myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
(14)
I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I
bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.
Psalms 119:136
Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not
obeyed.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a
fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my
people.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of
your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears,
because the LORD’s flock will be taken captive.
Jeremiah 14:17
. . . Let my eyes overflow with
tears night and day without ceasing; for my virgin daughter – my
people – has suffered a grievous wound, a crushing blow.
The Apostle Paul
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