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Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
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A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
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So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.
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And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.
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Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.
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These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.
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In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you.
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For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God.
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I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father.
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His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb.
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Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God.