| The joy of the Lord is your strength.1 – The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.2 – Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.3 |
| By him … let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.4 |
| Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.5 – Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.6 – We glory in tribulations also.7 |
