forteth, so will I comfort you: and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Jer. vi. 16. Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way? and walk therein; and ye shall find rest for your souls.

John, xiv. 18. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

2 Cor. i. 3. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. Ver. 4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able, to comfort them that are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

2 Cor. vii. 6. God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

2 Thess. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace.

Heb. vi. 18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Ver. 19. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.

Ps. xciv. 19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul,

XXIII. Delight and Joy in God.

Neh. viii. 10. The joy of the Lord is your strength.

Job, xxii. 26. Then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Ps. iv. 7. Thou hast put gladness in my heart more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

Ps. lxiii. 5. My soul shall be satisfied, as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

Ps. lxiv. 10. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him: and all the upright shall glory.

Ps. Ixviii. 3. Let the righteous be glad: let them rejoice before God; yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

Ps. lxxxix. 14. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. Ver. 16. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

Ps. xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Ps. cxviii. 15. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the right

eous.

Ps. cxxvi. 5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ver. 6. He that goeth forth and

weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Ps. xxxiii. 21. Our hearts shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy

name.

Cant. i. 4. We will be glad and rejoice in thee; we will remember thy love more than wine.

Is. ix. 3. They rejoice before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Is. xli. 16. Thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. Is. lv. 12. Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace.

Is. Ixi. 7. For confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. Ver. 10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord: my soul shall be joyful in my God.

Is. lxv. 14. Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart.

ls. li. 11. The redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Hab. iii. 18. I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

John, xv. 11. These things have I spoken

unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

John, xvi. 22. I will see you again and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

Rom. v. 2. We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

1 Pet. i. 8. Whom, having not seen, ye love: in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory.

XXIV. Support in death.

Ps. xxiii. 4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Ps. xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace.

Ps. xlviii. 14. For this God is our God, for ever and ever: he will be our guide, even unto death.

Ps. xlix. 15. God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave; for he shall receive

me.

Ps. lxxxiii. 26. My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Prov. xiv. 32. The righteous hath hope in his death.

Is. xxv. 8. He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces.

Hos. xiii. 14. I will ransom them from the power of the grave: I will redeem them from death: 0 death! I will be thy plague: 0 grave! I will be thy destruction.

Rom. viii. 38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come; Ver. 39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Cor. iv. 16. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

2 Tim. i. 12. I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Heb. ii. 14. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death; that is, the devil; Ver. 15. And deliver them, who, through fear of death, were all their life-time subject to bondage.

1 Cor. xv. 55. O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory? Ver. 55. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. Ver. 57. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.