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100 Bible Verses about Joy And Happiness

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 52 helpful votes

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 50 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 41 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

John 15:11 ESV / 35 helpful votes

These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Romans 12:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Psalm 19:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

Psalm 144:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

James 1:2-3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Philippians 4:11-13 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 16:24 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Psalm 126:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!

Proverbs 10:28 ESV / 29 helpful votes

The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

Proverbs 15:13 ESV / 28 helpful votes

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

James 5:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.

Isaiah 12:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

1 Peter 1:8-9 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

John 16:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 24 helpful votes

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Job 5:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.

1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,

James 1:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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 like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Luke 15:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

1 Timothy 6:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But godliness with contentment is great gain,

Romans 14:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.

Psalm 34:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

John 10:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Psalm 94:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes

When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”

John 3:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Habakkuk 3:17-18 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

Psalm 68:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!

Psalm 37:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

James 4:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

1 Timothy 6:6-8 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 25:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Isaiah 35:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 26:3-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

Isaiah 9:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.

Proverbs 28:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Psalm 146:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Psalm 128:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 47:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

Psalm 37:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

Psalm 37:4-14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. ...

Psalm 28:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Psalm 16:8-9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.

Psalm 4:6-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!” You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

2 Chronicles 9:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!

1 Chronicles 16:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.

Deuteronomy 33:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.”

Deuteronomy 24:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

1 Thessalonians 5:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Rejoice always,

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 12 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Ecclesiastes 3:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

James 1:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Psalm 119:111 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

Romans 15:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Romans 12:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

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