To the question of: "Is suicide wrong?" the immediate gut response of a normal person is: "Duh."

"Of course, suicide is wrong, bad, evil, immoral, wicked, and Hell-deserving."

It is interesting that suicide (or self-murder instead of self-"execution") is one crime and sin which the perpetrator who commits (instead of "performs") it cannot be punished for doing so - this side of eternity.

As with all crimes and sins, no one (for all practical purposes) can stop or prevent a person from doing what it takes to murder themselves, with the person who really does it knowing full well beforehand what the effect will be of them deliberately [not accidentally] doing what it takes to actually commit suicide.

Other crimes or sins can be punished by parents, police, and others in authority "after the fact" - only after the crime or sin has actually been done by the perpetrator....and not before [sometimes not even while] it is done or being done.

A cop cannot (in all sensibility) arrest a driver for going through a red stoplight if the the traffic light has not even turned red yet but is still green, or if already red, arrest a driver on superstitious suspicion that that driver is not eventually going to slow down and stop for the red stoplight.

Again, suicide is a unique crime or sin, not simply in that it (like other crimes or sins not done yet and not always even detected as definitely being planned to being done) cannot be prevented, but that the perpetrator cannot be punished for committing suicide this side of eternity.

It is crucial that a potential self-murdering suicide "victim" (yet not really a "victim" but instead: perpetrator who actually does it)....in stark contrast to becoming and being a benevolence-intentioned martyr legitimately sacrificing themselves (or, better yet: letting themselves be sacrificed) with the correct and allowable assumption (not presumption) that there is no other way possible to do what needs to be done....believes and understands that they will be held accountable to God to murdering themselves, and in The Judgement not be acquitted but instead deemed guilty by the Almighty Judge, with their punishment then being eternal confinement in the never-ending invisible flames of torture suspended forever in outer darkness within which they cannot commit suicide or escape in any way, to the ages of the ages.

The title of this piece ("Die....for God?") must be understood rightly, and if it is not, the misapplication and misinterpretation is not merely diabolical, but blasphemous.

God, in the person of Jesus Christ, died for us...we do not die for God -- in terms of who atones for and redeems who, who justifies who, who sanctifies who.

Not merely cultic catholics, but also cultic protestants, cultic extremist muslims, and cultic whoever of whatever religions must keep in mind that self-sacrifice in "the name of G-d" (or the name of "alluh") does not save anyone - including themselves:

Exodus 22:20 Whoever sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be completely destroyed.

First Samuel 3:14 Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering forever.

First Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said: "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Hey, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
First Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said: "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said: "Take a heifer with you, and say: "I have come to sacrifice to the LORD."

Second Kings 5:17 Then Naaman said: "...from now on, your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD."

Second Kings 10:19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal; whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

Second Chronicles 7:1 When Solomon had ended his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you do not desire; but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Isaiah 1:11 "What to me is your bunch of sacrifices?" says the LORD?; "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats."
Isaiah 66:3 He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like him who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a cereal offering, like him who offers swine's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like him who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations...

Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

If a new Jewish temple is rebuilt sometime in the near future (past 2015) over in Israel, it is doubtful that worthless and inapplicable animal sacrifices will ever resume in view of the verses above. "Christ our Paschal Lamb has [already] been sacrificed" [First Corinthians 5:7]. And before any animal sacrifices would begin, the Antichrist would take his seat in the temple of God instead of or in place of animal sacrifices, blasphemously proclaiming himself to be God [Second Thessalonians 2:4].

As will be mentioned again later on, a supreme viable antidote for depression diverting people away from the crime and sin of committing suicide is God-commanded praise and thanksgiving, instead of binding themselves up in a selfish and self-centered "pity party" perhaps caused by a selfishly-hateful-and-non-forgiving festering "root-of-bitterness" resentment against someone for something:

Psalm 50:14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High
50:23 He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"
51:16 You have no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.
51:17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, God, you will not despise.
107:22 And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of His deeds in songs of joy!
116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
141:2 Let my prayer be counted as incense to you, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice!

Jonah 2:9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance belongs to the LORD!"

Ezekiel 20:31 "When you offer your gifts and sacrifice your sons by fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you."

Notice the animals-saving animals-protecting order from the Lord to perhaps keep would-have-been-slaughtered endangered animals as pets instead of wasted for nothing:

Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
6:6 For I desire continual love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.
9:4 They shall not pour libations of wine to the LORD; and they shall not please him with their sacrifices.
13:2 And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves molten images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. "Sacrifice to these," they say. Men kiss calves!

Amos 4:4 "Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days
Amos 4:5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, people of Israel!" says the Lord GOD.

Jonah 1:16 Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.

Did the LORD Himself sacrifice, and if so - to and for who?

Zephaniah 1:7 Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is at hand; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated His guests.

Malachi 1:8 "When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that no evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that no evil? Present that to your governor; will he be pleased with you or show you favor?" says the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 9:13 Go and learn what this means: "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
Matthew 12:7 And if you had known what this means: "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice," you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Mark 12:33 ...and to love [God] with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Not intended as an appeal for blasphemous-self-atonement suicide, like dousing oneself with gasoline and torching oneself in the name of G-d or alluh, Paul obviously spiritualizes human sacrifice with the important conditional and qualifying word: "living" in the verse below:

Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a [smelly? stinky? No!] fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

"Holy Self-Sacrificial Suicide!" Batman's Robin might exclaim.

But was it bonafide self-murdering suicide [Christ letting Himself being murdered when He knew He could have instead gotten out of it]....or instead self-executionary sacrifice?

Philippians 4:18 I have received full payment, and more; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Hebrews 5:1 Every high priest chosen from among men (and women) is appointed to act on behalf of men/women in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
5:3 Because of this He is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.
7:27 [Christ Jesus] has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for His own sins and then for those of the people; He did this once for all when He offered up Himself.
9:9 According to previous arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper
9:26 for then He would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, He has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Hebrews 10:1 Being that the Law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near.
10:3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.
10:12 But when Christ had offered for all time [back into history, now, and ahead into the future] a single sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God

Is the ultimate self-sacrifice correctly-termed: "suicide," and is there both wicked and righteous "suicide" - the former done without regard for or to selfishly spite others, and the latter done under misfortunate conditions of expediency for the well-being of others?

Examples of good pseudo-suicide come to mind, the ultimate of which is Christ Jesus willingly and deliberately giving Himself up to murderers (not executioners) in allowing themselves to cause Him to become The One and Only Perfect Sacrifice Against Sins of the Penitent by being crucified to death on a cross.

The Lord did not, however, allow Himself to suffer permanently-fatal "suicide," because shortly after He was murdered by jealous disbelieving jews and Roman-government accomplices, He was resurrected and has remained resurrected to this day.

Jephthah's daughter [Judges 11] allowed herself to be killed by her mis-vowing dad, and it is difficult to say whether that killing was considered a murder or instead a [legal] execution. Perhaps the police and courts of his time would have understood the cause [not "reason"] for the killing being Jephthah's fulfilling a dangerous and absurd vow he had made to the Lord, but nevertheless perhaps punished him accordingly for manslaughter according to the statutes of that time?

Lesser examples of beneficial "suicide"(?) have been the righteous and understandable last will and testament of helplessly blind and tortured Samson, who petitioned the Lord to renew his great strength just one more time to bring down the house on the Lord's Philistine enemies and execute (not "murder") them.

Science Officer Mr. Spock (in a Star Trek) movie realized that the starship Enterprise was doomed for destruction unless he himself went into the radiation chamber to make a crucial warp-drive adjustment no one else could make, with the comment: "The lives of the many outweigh the life of the one."

In the movie The Titanic, the young man let his young-woman lover get into the one-person life raft alone, being that there was not enough room for two and it would have sunk if both had tried to get into and stay in it.

And the story of the soldier who throws himself on the hand grenade to save his fellow buddies is legendary.

Romans 5:7 Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man -- though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.

Lamentably, some dullards are sloppy concerning their semantics, mis-exchanging and mis-utilizing the word "execution" (which is generally understood to be legitimate killing) and the word "murder" (which is generally understood to be illegitimate killing).

The same applies concerning the murdered-by-onesself selfish-act word: "suicide" in stark contrast to murdered-by-others self-less benevolent word: "martyrdom" [both in the non-discriminate and non-specific generic category of: "killing"].

Generally, the Creator is pro-life, and commands that to and for all:

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live...

Ezekiel 18:31 Throw away from you all the transgressions which you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, house of Israel?
18:32 "For I have no pleasure in the death of any one," says the Lord GOD; "so turn, and live."
33:11 Say to them: "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?"
33:11 Say to them: "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?"

Philippians 1:23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
1:24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
1:25 Convinced of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,
1:26 so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.

However, God is not always pro-life, but instead pro-death against transgressors:

Genesis 6:13 And God said to Noah: "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; Hey, I will destroy them with Earth.
Genesis 6:17 For Hey, I will bring a flood of waters upon Earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.

Total "genocide?" Total "murder?" Total "execution?" The latter, yes - the others, no.

Exodus 12:23 For the LORD will pass through to slay the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to slay you.

Deuteronomy 20:17 ...but you shall completely destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded.

Congruent with payback atomic bombs from previously-Japs-bombed-Pearl-Harbor America detonated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki which justifiably incinerated every man, woman, child, pregnant woman with child, animal, vegetation from Ground Zero on and outward - all living lifeforms within a certain radius.

Joshua 10:40 So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
11:11 And they put to the sword all who were in it, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed, and he burned Hazor with fire.
11:14 And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the people of Israel took for their booty; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any that breathed.

First Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Job 2:3 And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause."

Psalm 21:10 You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their children from among the sons of men.
101:5 Him who slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. The man of haughty looks and arrogant heart I will not endure.
101:8 Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.
137:9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

139:19 O that you would slay the wicked, God, and that men of blood would depart from me,
145:20 The LORD preserves all who love Him; but all the wicked He will destroy.

Isaiah 11:4 ...but with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite Earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips he shall slay the wicked.
Isaiah 13:9 Hey, the Day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make Earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.

Jeremiah 15:3 "I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the LORD: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of Earth to devour and destroy.

51:3 Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his coat of mail. Spare not her young men; utterly destroy all her host.
51:20 "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms...

Lamentations 3:66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, LORD.

Ezekiel 14:9 "And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel."
Ezekiel 25:7 "...therefore, Hey, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD."

Hosea 13:9 "I will destroy you, Israel; who can help you?"

Amos 9:8 "Hey, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground; except that I will not complete destroy the house of Jacob," says the LORD.

Listen up, Adolf Hitler and Iranians et al bent on wiping Israel off the map!

Obadiah 1:8 "Will I not on that day," says the LORD, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?"

Zechariah 12:9 And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Whether suicide is premeditated, or instead impulsively decided on the spot, murder is murder - and the one who murders themself is and always will be lacking acceptable purpose and motive for so doing (whether or not with presumed pre-approval from G-d or alluh, but actually at the behest of Satan, whether for selfish depression or aggressive maliciousness).

The sane and rational person -- in obedience to the Holy Spirit who used St Peter to command His followers to "keep sane and sober for your prayers" [First Peter 4:7] -- who trusts in God to provide a way out even in a seemingly impossible situation and circumstance -- is the one who will refuse to take his or her own life (such life-taking a perogative of God's and not their own) for whatever purpose....with or without any logical or reasonable recourse to escape and continue to serve Him as a physically alive and living person.

Daniel 3:14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them: "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image which I have set up?
3:15 Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well and good; but if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a burning fiery furnace; and who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands?"
3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king: "Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and He will deliver us out of your hand, king.
3:18 But if not, be it known to you, king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up."

Not all rejoicing is related to countering depression leading perhaps to suicide, and not all self-sacrificial martyrdom [as for example a dying dad refusing to eat or drink wanting to save his son inheritance-depleting ongoing-nursing-care expenses] done for the sake of God is illegitimate, under dire circumstances, as when martyr-by-default Samson petitioned the Lord to let him self-sacrificially "bring down the house:"

Judges 16:23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said: "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."
16:28 Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "Lord GOD, remember me, I pray you, and strengthen me, I pray you, only this once, God, that I may be avenged upon the Philistines for one of my two eyes."
16:30 And Samson said: "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.

Lethally relinquishing to fatal depression is violation against the following Prime Directives of the Creator, and what God instead commands (not merely "suggests") to the person contemplating the possibility of self-deluded and pseudo-escapist self-murder is counteractive rejoicing:

Deuteronomy 12:12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 26:11 ...and you shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the traveler who is among you.

First Samuel 2:1 Hannah also prayed and said: "My heart exults in the LORD; my strength is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

First Chronicles 16:10 Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!

Second Chronicles 6:41 "And now get up, LORD God, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. Let your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.

Nehemiah 12:43 And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far off.

Psalm 5:11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice, let them ever sing for joy; and you defend them, that those who love your name may exult in you.
13:5 But I have trusted in your continual love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
40:16 But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually: "Great is the LORD!"
48:11 let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
58:10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
70:4 May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore: "God is great!"
75:9 But I will rejoice forever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
97:8 Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, God.
104:34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
105:3 Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!
118:24 This is the day which the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
119:74 Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in thy word.
119:162 I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.
149:2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker, let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King!

Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Song of Solomon 1:4 Draw me after you, let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.

Isaiah 9:3 You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
41:16 You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
60:5 Then you shall see and be radiant, your heart shall thrill and rejoice; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
61:7 Instead of your shame you shall have a double portion, instead of dishonor you shall rejoice in your lot; therefore in your land you shall possess a double portion; yours shall be everlasting joy.
61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall exult in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
65:13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Hey, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; Hey, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; Hey, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame.

Joel 2:23 Be glad, sons of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for He has given the early rain for your vindication, He has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.

Habukkuk 3:18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Zephaniah 3:14 Sing aloud, daughter of Zion; shout, Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem!

Zechariah 2:10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for wow, I come and I will reside in the midst of you," says the LORD.

Matthew 5:12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.

John 16:20 Truthfully I say to you, you will sob and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
John 16:22 So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Romans 5:2 Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
5:3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance...
5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation. 12:12 Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
15:10 and again it is said, "Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people"

Second Corinthians 7:9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting; for you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.
Second Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice, because I have perfect confidence in you.

Philippians 1:18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in that I rejoice.
1:19 Yes, and I shall rejoice. For I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,
2:17 Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
2:18 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and is safe for you.

First Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice always...

First Peter 1:6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials...
First Peter 1:8 Without having seen Him you love Him; though you do not now see Him you believe in Him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy.
First Peter 4:13 But rejoice in so far as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, heaven, saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and exult and give Him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Bride has made herself ready..