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105 Bible verses about Happiness
You should never doubt God's infinite goodness. Trust completely in His love and care, even when things get tough. In those moments, you can find refuge in Him and His protection.
Some folks picture God as sad, angry, or indifferent, but the truth is, He is majestic and overflowing with joy. His happiness doesn't depend on anything or anyone, and He's the only one who can truly give it to us.
Your happiness comes from God. Let's face it, there will always be reasons to cry, suffer, and feel discouraged. Yet, He's promised to be with us always, to the very end. As Jesus said, "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20).
Happiness in God isn't just a feeling; it's about being accepted by Him, having a clean heart, and being free in His presence. Let's celebrate that amazing truth!
Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.
How blessed is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand in the pathway with sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers!
Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.
He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.
You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.
But may all who take shelter in you be happy! May they continually shout for joy! Shelter them so that those who are loyal to you may rejoice!
The Lord’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord’s commands are pure and give insight for life.
As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.
The Lord strengthens and protects me; I trust in him with all my heart. I am rescued and my heart is full of joy; I will sing to him in gratitude.
Shout for joy, Daughter Zion! Shout out, Israel! Be happy and boast with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!
The Lord has removed the judgment against you; he has turned back your enemy. Israel’s king, the Lord, is in your midst! You no longer need to fear disaster.
Then you turned my lament into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy.
You godly ones, shout for joy because of the Lord! It is appropriate for the morally upright to offer him praise.
Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance! Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey!
For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. The Lord bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.
Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love! Then we will shout for joy and be happy all our days!
For you, O Lord, have made me happy by your work. I will sing for joy because of what you have done.
The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy.
You godly ones, rejoice in the Lord! Give thanks to his holy name.
Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth!
Worship the Lord with joy! Enter his presence with joyful singing!
Praise the Lord, O my soul! Do not forget all his kind deeds!
Praise the Lord, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees and obey his orders!
Praise the Lord, all you warriors of his, you servants of his who carry out his desires!
Praise the Lord, all that he has made, in all the regions of his kingdom! Praise the Lord, O my soul!
He is the one who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,
who satisfies your life with good things, so your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.
Praise the Lord! How blessed is the one who obeys the Lord, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.
At that time we laughed loudly and shouted for joy. At that time the nations said, “The Lord has accomplished great things for these people.”
The Lord did indeed accomplish great things for us. We were happy.
How blessed is every one of the Lord’s loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands!
You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!
The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.
All the days of the afflicted are bad, but one with a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
The one who deals wisely in a matter will find success, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.
Blessed is the one who is always cautious, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil.
When there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but the one who keeps the law, blessed is he!
For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth – only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile – like chasing the wind!
I have concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they live,
and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God.
To every man whom God has given wealth, and possessions, he has also given him the ability to eat from them, to receive his reward and to find enjoyment in his toil; these things are the gift of God.
Do not be rash with your mouth or hasty in your heart to bring up a matter before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth! Therefore, let your words be few.
For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.
Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.
Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer.”
Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of deliverance.
those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. They will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.
Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.
to strengthen those who mourn in Zion, by giving them a turban, instead of ashes, oil symbolizing joy, instead of mourning, a garment symbolizing praise, instead of discouragement. They will be called oaks of righteousness, trees planted by the Lord to reveal his splendor.
But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness.
Jerusalem will bring me joy, and my people will bring me happiness. The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow will never be heard in her again.
The Lord says, “At that time young women will dance and be glad. Young men and old men will rejoice. I will turn their grief into gladness. I will give them comfort and joy in place of their sorrow.
The Lord your God is in your midst; he is a warrior who can deliver. He takes great delight in you; he renews you by his love; he shouts for joy over you.”
Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.
But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Just then some people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.”
His master answered, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’
“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names stand written in heaven.”
I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.
You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of joy with your presence.’
through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.
Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
I have great confidence in you; I take great pride on your behalf. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in the midst of all our suffering.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.
But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.
And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.
Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.
keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,
For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.
But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.
For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.
But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he will be blessed in what he does.
If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.
You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.
Rejoice in the Lord and be happy, you who are godly! Shout for joy, all you who are morally upright!
How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.
The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.
You have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.
And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit,
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,
and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.