Verses for my joy

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

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