138 Bible verses about joy in adversity

My brethren, deem ye all joy, when ye fall into diverse temptations,

for the wrath of man worketh not the rightwiseness of God.

For which thing cast ye away all uncleanness, and plenty of malice, and in mildness, receive ye the word that is planted, that may save your souls.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

For if any man is an hearer of the word, and not a doer, this shall be likened to a man that beholdeth the cheer of his birth in a mirror;

for he beheld himself, and went away, and anon he forgot which [or what] he was.

But he that beholdeth into the law of perfect freedom, and dwelleth in it, and is not made a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, this shall be blessed in his deed.

And if any man guesseth himself to be religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, the religion of him is vain.

A clean religion, and unwemmed with God and the Father, is this, to visit fatherless and motherless children, and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself undefouled from this world.

witting that the proving of your faith worketh patience;

And not this only, but also we glory in tribulations, witting that tribulation worketh patience,

and patience proving, and proving hope.

And hope confoundeth not, for the charity of God is spread abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, that is given to us.

In which ye shall make joy, though it behooveth now a little to be sorry in diverse temptations;

that the proving of your faith be much more precious than gold, that is proved by fire; and be found into praising, and glory, and honour, in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

For ire is in his indignation; and life is in his will. Weeping shall dwell at eventide; and gladness at the morrowtide.

Joy ye in the Lord evermore; again I say, joy ye.

To David, when he changed his mouth, or his word, before Abimelech, and he drove out David, and he went forth. [The psalm of David, when he changed his cheer before Abimelech, and he let him go, and he went away.] I shall bless the Lord in all time; ever[more] his praising be in my mouth.

And we know, that to men that love God, all things work together into good, to them that after purpose be called saints.

Evermore joy ye;

without ceasing pray ye;

in all things do ye thankings. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus, in all you.

They that sow in tears; shall reap in full out joying.

They going, went, and wept; sending their seeds. But they coming, shall come with full out joying; bearing their handfuls.

that I should set comfort to the mourners of Zion, and that I should give to them a crown for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, a mantle of praising for the spirit of wailing. And strong men of rightfulness [or rightwiseness] shall be called therein, the planting of the Lord, for to glorify.

Therefore we that have so great a cloud of witnesses put to [us], do we away all charge, and sin standing about us, and by patience run we to the battle, [or the strife, or fight], purposed to us,

And they in time of few days taught us by their will; but this Father teacheth to that thing that is profitable, in receiving the hallowing of him.

And each chastising in [this] present time seemeth to be not of joy, but of sorrow; but afterward it shall yield fruit of rightwiseness most peaceable to men exercised by it.

For which thing raise ye [up] slow hands, and knees unbound,

and make ye rightful steps to your feet; that no man halting err, but more be healed.

Pursue ye peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see God.

Behold ye, that no man fail to the grace of God, that no root of bitterness burrowing upward hinder [us], and many be defouled by it;

that no man be lecher, either unholy, as Esau, which for one [meal’s] meat sold his first things, [or heritage].

For know ye, that afterward he coveting to inherit blessing, was reproved. For he found not place of penance, though he sought it with tears.

But ye have not come to the fire able to be touched, and able to come to, and to the whirlwind [or the great wind], and mist, and tempest,

and sound of trump, and voice of words; which they that heard, excused them, that the word should not be made to them.

beholding into the maker of faith, and the perfect ender, Jesus; which when joy was purposed to him, he suffered the cross, and despised confusion, and sitteth on the right half of the seat of God.

Tribulation and anguish have found me; thy behests is my thinking.

Blessed be they that suffer persecution for rightwiseness, for the kingdom of heavens [or the kingdom of heaven] is theirs.

Blessed be ye, when men shall curse you, and shall pursue you, and shall say all evil against you lying, for me.

Joy ye, and be ye glad, for your meed is plenteous in heavens; for so they have pursued also prophets that were before you.

But I shall hope ever[more]; and I shall add to ever over all thy praising.

and be comforted in all virtue, by the might of his clearness, in all patience and long abiding with joy,

A joyful soul maketh liking age; a sorrowful spirit maketh dry bones.

This is the day which the Lord made; make we full out joy, and be we glad therein.

When thou shalt go by waters, I shall be with thee, and floods shall not cover thee; when thou shalt go in fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and flame shall not burn in thee.

Only live ye worthily to the gospel of Christ, that whether when I come and see you, either absent I hear of you, that ye stand in one spirit of one will, travailing together to the faith of the gospel.

And in nothing be ye afeared of adversaries, which is to them cause of perdition, but to you a cause of health. And this thing is of God.

The Lord magnified to do with us; we be made glad.

My soul, why art thou sorry; and why troublest thou me? Hope thou in God, for yet I shall acknowledge to him; he is the health of my cheer, and my God.

For which thing we fail not, for though our outer man be corrupted; nevertheless the inner man is renewed from day to day.

But that light, [or easy], thing of our tribulation that lasteth now, but as it were by a moment, worketh in us over-measure an everlasting burden [or an everlasting weight] into the highness of glory;

while that we behold not those things that be seen, but those [things] that be not seen. For those things that be seen, be but during for a short time [or temporal]; but those things that be not seen, be everlasting [or eternal].

All ye that travail, and be charged, come to me, and I shall fulfill [or shall refresh] you.

Take ye my yoke on you, and learn ye of me, for I am mild and meek in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.

and said to him, Art thou he that shall come, or we abide another?

For my yoke is soft [or sweet], and my charge is light [or easy].

All ye that hope in the Lord, do ye manly; and your heart be comforted.

But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,

temperance, continence, chastity; against such things is no law.

joying in hope, patient in tribulation, busy in prayer,

A joyful heart maketh glad the face; the spirit is cast down in the mourning of soul.

My flesh and mine heart failed; God of mine heart, and my part is God without end.

Of the highness of day I shall dread; but God, I shall hope in thee.

In God I shall praise my words; I hoped in God, I shall not dread what thing flesh, or man, shall do to me.

Thy mercy be made, that it comfort me; by thy speech to thy servant.

Most dear brethren, do not ye go in pilgrimage in fervour, that is made to you to temptation, as if any new thing befall to you;

but commune ye with the passions of Christ, and have ye joy, that also ye be glad, and have joy in the revelation of his glory.

For victory, the psalm of David. I abiding abode the Lord; and he gave attention to me. And he heard my prayers;

I hid not thy rightfulness [or right-wiseness] in mine heart; I said thy truth and thine health. I hid not thy mercy, and thy truth, from a much council.

But thou, Lord, make not far thy merciful doings from me; thy mercy and truth ever[more] take me up.

For why evils, of which is no number, encompassed me; my wicked-nesses have taken me, and I might not, that I should see. Those [or They] be multiplied above the hairs of mine head; and mine heart forsook me.

Lord, please it to thee, that thou deliver me; Lord, behold thou to help me.

Be they shamed, and ashamed together; that seek my life, to take away it. Be they turned aback, and be they shamed or ashamed; that will or desire evils to me.

Bear they their confusion anon; that say to me, Well! well! in scorn.

All men that seek thee, be fully joyful [or full out joy], and be glad in thee; and say they, that love thine health, The Lord be magnified ever-[more].

Forsooth I am a beggar and poor; the Lord is busy of me. Thou art mine helper and my defender; my God, tarry thou not.

and he led out me from the pit of wretchedness, and from the filth of dregs. And he ordained my feet on a stone; and he dressed my goings.

And he sent into my mouth a new song; a song to our God. Many men shall see, and dread; and shall hope in the Lord.

After the multitude of my sorrows in mine heart; thy comforts made glad my soul.

But they that hope in the Lord, shall change strength, they shall take feathers as eagles; they shall run, and shall not travail; they shall go, and shall not fail.

And if any of you is sorrowful, [or heavy], pray he with patient soul, and say he a psalm.

Evermore joy ye;

Into the end, for the privates of the son, the psalm of David. Lord, I shall acknowledge to thee in all mine heart; I shall tell all thy marvels.

And they, that know thy name, have hope in thee; for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Sing ye [psalms] to the Lord, that dwelleth in Zion; tell ye his studies among heathen men.

God forgetteth not the cry of poor men; for he hath mind of them, and he seeketh the blood of them.

Lord, have thou mercy on me; see thou my meekness of mine enemies. Which enhancest me from the gates of death;

that I tell all thy praisings in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I shall be fully joyful or joy fully in thine health;

heathen men be fast-set in the perishing, which they made. In this snare, which they hid, the foot of them is caught.

The Lord making dooms shall be known; the sinner is taken in the works of his hands.

Sinners be turned altogether into hell; all folks, that forget God.

For the forgetting of a poor man shall not be into the end; the patience of poor men shall not perish into the end.

Lord, rise thou up, a man be not comforted; [the] folks be deemed in thy sight.

Thou Highest, I shall be glad, and I shall be fully joyful [or full out joy] in thee; I shall sing to thy name.

Be your manners without covetousness, satisfied with present things; for he said, I shall not leave thee, neither forsake,

so that we say trustily, The Lord is an helper to me; I shall not dread what a man shall do to me.

But do we thankings to God, that gave to us victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.

And God of hope full-fill you in all joy and peace in believing, that ye increase [or abound] in hope and virtue of the Holy Ghost.

I may all things in him that comforteth me.

Therefore do not ye be busy into the morrow, for the morrow shall be busy to itself; for it sufficeth to the day his own malice.

Abiding of just [or rightwise] men is gladness; but the hope of wicked men shall perish.

Thou art mine helper, and mine up-taker; and I hoped more in thy word.

My soul, why art thou sorry; and why troublest thou me? Hope thou in God, for yet I shall acknowledge to him; he is the health of my cheer, and my God.

But in all these things we overcome, for him that loved us.

And doing good fail we not; for in his time we shall reap, not failing.

It is good to me, that thou hast made me meek; that I learn thy justi-fyings.

I say not as for need, for I have learned to be sufficient in which things I am.

And I know also how to be lowed, [or how to be bowed, or meeked], I know also how to have plenty [or how to abound]. Every-where and in all things I am taught to be [full]-filled, and to hunger, and to abound, and to suffer mis-ease.

And have ye mind on the former days, in which ye were enlightened, and suffered great strife of passions.

And in the tother ye were made a spectacle by shames, and tribulations; in another ye were made fellows of men living so.

For also to bound men ye had compassion, and ye received with joy the robbing of your goods, knowing that ye have a better and a dwelling substance.

The Lord is nigh to all that inward-ly call him; to all that inwardly call him in truth.

Dread thou not, for I am with thee; bow thou not away, for I am thy God. I comforted thee, and helped thee; and the right hand of my just [or rightwise] man up-took thee.

as sorrowful, and evermore joying [or but evermore joying]; as having need, but making many men rich; as nothing having, and wielding all things.

Forsooth thou, the praising of Israel, dwellest in holiness;

to know him, and the virtue of his rising again, and the fellowship of his passion, and to be made like [or configured] to his death,

Lord, turn thou our captivity; as a strand [or stream] in the south.

he shall not dread of an evil hearing. His heart is ready for to hope in the Lord;

Therefore we, justified of faith, have we peace at God by our Lord Jesus Christ.

For if when we were enemies, we be reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more we reconciled shall be safe in the life of him.

And not only this, but also we glory in God, by our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have received now reconciling.

Therefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death, and so death passed forth into all men, in which man all men sinned.

For unto the law sin was in the world; but sin was not reckoned, when [the] law was not.

But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, also into them that sinned not in likeness of the trespassing of Adam, the which is likeness of Christ to coming [or to come].

But not as [the] guilt [or the trespass], so the gift; for if through the guilt [or the trespass] of one many be dead, much more the grace of God and the gift in the grace of one man Jesus Christ hath abounded into many men.

And not as by one sin, so by the gift; for the doom, of one into condemnation, but the grace of many guilts [or trespassings] into justification.

For if in the guilt of one death reigned through one, much more men that take plenty of grace, and of giving, and of rightwiseness, shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.

Therefore as by the guilt of one into all men into condemnation, so by the rightwiseness of one into all men into justifying of life.

For as by unobedience of one man many be made sinners, so by the obedience of one many shall be [ordained] just.

By whom we have nigh going to [or access], by faith into this grace, in which we stand, and have glory in the hope of the glory of God’s children.

Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Father of mercies, and God of all comfort,

which comforteth us in all our tribulation, that also we may comfort them, that be in all dis-ease [or in all pressure] by the admonishing by which also we be admonished of God.

I shall acknowledge to thee, for thou art magnified dreadfully; thy works be wonderful, and my soul shall know that full much.

The eld [or old] error is gone away; thou shalt keep peace, peace, for thou, Lord, we hoped in thee.

Blessed be mild men, for they shall wield the earth.

then mine enemies shall be turned aback. In whatever day I shall inwardly call thee; lo! I have known, that thou art my God.

And God of all grace, that called you into his everlasting glory, you suffering a little [in Christ Jesus], he shall perform, and shall confirm, and shall make firm.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt [full-]fill me with gladness with thy cheer; delight-ings be in thy right half unto the end.

But Christ again-bought us [or delivered us] from the curse of the law, and was made accursed for us; for it is written, Each man is cursed that hangeth in the tree;

that among the heathen the blessing of Abraham were made in Jesus Christ, that we receive the promise of Spirit through belief. [that the blessing of Abraham in heathen men should be made in Christ Jesus, that we take the promise of Spirit by faith.]

And I deem, that the passions of this time be not even worthy, to the glory to coming [or to come], that shall be showed in us.

For this is God, our God, into without end, and into the world of world; he shall govern us into worlds.

And the Lord thy God shall give ever rest to thee, and shall [ful] fill thy soul with shinings, and shall deliver thy bones; and thou shalt be as a watered garden, and as a well of waters, whose waters shall not fail.

My Lord God, thou hast made thy marvels many; and in thy thoughts none is, that is like thee toward us. I told and I spake; and they be multiplied above number.

And we have this treasure in brittle vessels, that the worthiness [or the highness] be of God’s virtue, and not of us.

In all things we suffer tribulation, but we be not anguished, or annoyed; we be made poor, but we lack nothing [or we be not destitute];

we suffer persecution, but we be not forsaken; we be made low, but we be not confounded; we be cast down, but we perish not.

He cried to me, and I shall hear him; I am with him in tribulation; I shall deliver him, and I shall glorify him.

Therefore go we with trust to the throne of his grace, that we get mercy, and find grace in covenable help.

trusting this same thing, that he that began in you a good work, shall perform it till into the day of Jesus Christ.

The Lord is my strength, and my praising; and he is made to me into health.

And now the Lord God, making of nought thee, Jacob, and forming thee, Israel, saith these things, Do not thou dread, for I again-bought thee, and I called thee by thy name; thou art my servant.

For why the realm of God is not meat and drink, but rightwiseness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

For all thing that is born of God, overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, our faith.

Alleluia. Blessed is the man that dreadeth the Lord; he shall delight full much in his commandments.

A sinner shall see, and shall be wroth; he shall gnash with his teeth, and shall fail, either shall wax rotten; the desire of sinners shall perish.

His seed shall be mighty in [the] earth; the generation of rightful [or right] men shall be blessed.

I joying shall have joy in the Lord, and my soul shall make full out joying in my God. For he hath clothed me with [the] clothes of health, and he hath compassed me with [the] clothes of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], as a spouse made fair with a crown, and as a spousess adorned with her brooches.

For why though I shall go in the midst of shadow of death; I shall not dread evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff; those have comforted me.

Whom when ye have not seen, ye love; into whom also now ye not seeing, believe; but ye that believe shall have joy, and gladness that may not be told out, and ye shall be glorified,

But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,

Therefore by him offer we a sacrifice of praising evermore to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips acknowledging to his name.

What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

Which also spared not his own Son, but betook him for us all, how also gave he not to us all things with him?

[Teth.] Lord, thou hast done good-ness with thy servant; by thy word.

And do ye all things without grutchings, and doubtings;

If I shall go in the midst of tribu-lation, thou shalt quicken me; and thou stretchedest forth thine hand on the ire of mine enemies, and thy right hand made me safe.

And the Lord was made to me into refuge; and my God was made into the help of mine hope.

All the days of a poor man be evil; a secure soul is a continual feast.

neither height, neither deepness, neither any other creature, may part us from the charity of God, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Lo! God is my saviour, I shall do faithfully, and I shall not dread. For why the Lord is my strength and my praising, and he is made to me into health.

A true God [or Forsooth God is true], by whom ye be called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Cast thy care, or thought, [or thy busyness], on the Lord, and he shall fully nourish thee; and he shall not give without end fluttering to a just [or rightwise] man.

For why God gave not to us the spirit of dread, but of virtue, and of love, and of soberness.

Thou hast turned my wailing into joy to me; thou hast rent my sack-cloth, and hast encompassed me with gladness.

That my glory sing to thee, and I be not compunct; my Lord God, I shall acknowledge to thee without end.

Ye most dear brethren, not defending, [or avenging], yourselves, but give ye place to wrath [or ire]; for it is written, The Lord saith, To me vengeance, and I shall yield.

[The psalm of David.] Lord, deem thou me, for I entered in mine inno-cence; and I hoping in the Lord, shall not be made unsteadfast.

In whose hands wickednesses be; the right hand of them is full-filled with gifts.

But I entered in mine innocence; again-buy thou me, and have mercy on me.

My foot stood in rightfulness; Lord, I shall bless thee in churches.

Lord, prove thou me, and assay me; burn thou my reins, and mine heart.

For, brethren, ye be called into freedom [or into liberty]; only give ye not freedom [or liberty] into occasion of flesh, but by charity of [the] Spirit serve ye together.

All ye that travail, and be charged, come to me, and I shall fulfill [or shall refresh] you.

I bowed mine heart to do thy justifyings without end; for reward.

my soul, why art thou sorry, and why troublest thou me? Hope thou in God, for yet I shall acknowledge to him; that is the health of my cheer, and my God.

Give thou to me the gladness of thine health; and confirm thou me with the principal spirit.

Temptation take not you, but man’s temptation; for God is true, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above that that ye may; but he shall make with temptation also purveyance, that ye may suffer [or sustain].

beholding into the maker of faith, and the perfect ender, Jesus; which when joy was purposed to him, he suffered the cross, and despised confusion, and sitteth on the right half of the seat of God.

For sin shall not have lordship over you; for ye be not under the law, but under grace.

Blessed is the man, whose help is of thee; he hath ordained thy goings in his heart,

And my God [ful]fill all your desire, by his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Ye, little sons, be of God, and ye have overcome him; for he that is in you is more, than he that is in the world.

But thou, Lord, art mine up-taker; my glory, and enhancing mine head.

For why how many ever be promises of God, in that is, be fulfilled, [or in him is, that is, they be fulfilled in him]. And therefore by him we say Amen to God, to our glory.

Alleluia. Acknowledge ye to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is without end.

Mourning in the heart of a just [or rightwise] man shall make him meek; and he shall be made glad by a good word.

Lo! the eyes of the Lord be on men dreading him; and in them that hope in his mercy.

[Daleth.] My soul cleaved to the pavement; quicken thou me by thy word.

when thou sheddest [or shalt pour] out thy soul, either thy will, to an hungry man, and [ful] fillest a soul that is tormented, thy light shall rise in darknesses, and thy darknesses shall be as midday.

And the Lord thy God shall give ever rest to thee, and shall [ful] fill thy soul with shinings, and shall deliver thy bones; and thou shalt be as a watered garden, and as a well of waters, whose waters shall not fail.

They that sow in tears; shall reap in full out joying.

in all things do ye thankings. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus, in all you.

But we be not the sons of withdrawing away into perdition, but of faith into [the] getting of soul.

And not this only, but also we glory in tribulations, witting that tribulation worketh patience,

That giveth strength to the weary, and strength to them that be not, and multiplieth stalworth[y] ness.

The voice of a crier in desert [or The voice of the one crying in desert], Make ye ready the way of the Lord, make ye rightful [or right] the paths of our God in wilderness.

Young men shall fail, and shall travail, and young men shall fall down in their sickness.

But they that hope in the Lord, shall change strength, they shall take feathers as eagles; they shall run, and shall not travail; they shall go, and shall not fail.

The Lord is an helper to me; I shall not dread what man shall do to me.

The Lord is an helper to me; and I shall despise mine enemies.

and cast ye all your busyness into him, for to him is care of you.

and, Lord, for thy law I abode thee. My soul sustained in his word;

And they that be of Christ, have crucified their flesh with vices and covetings [or concupiscences].

Only live ye worthily to the gospel of Christ, that whether when I come and see you, either absent I hear of you, that ye stand in one spirit of one will, travailing together to the faith of the gospel.

Therefore if any new creature is in Christ, the old things be passed. Lo! all things be made new,

For victory, the psalm of David. I abiding abode the Lord; and he gave attention to me. And he heard my prayers;

I hid not thy rightfulness [or right-wiseness] in mine heart; I said thy truth and thine health. I hid not thy mercy, and thy truth, from a much council.

But thou, Lord, make not far thy merciful doings from me; thy mercy and truth ever[more] take me up.

For why evils, of which is no number, encompassed me; my wicked-nesses have taken me, and I might not, that I should see. Those [or They] be multiplied above the hairs of mine head; and mine heart forsook me.

Lord, please it to thee, that thou deliver me; Lord, behold thou to help me.

Be they shamed, and ashamed together; that seek my life, to take away it. Be they turned aback, and be they shamed or ashamed; that will or desire evils to me.

Bear they their confusion anon; that say to me, Well! well! in scorn.

All men that seek thee, be fully joyful [or full out joy], and be glad in thee; and say they, that love thine health, The Lord be magnified ever-[more].

Forsooth I am a beggar and poor; the Lord is busy of me. Thou art mine helper and my defender; my God, tarry thou not.

and he led out me from the pit of wretchedness, and from the filth of dregs. And he ordained my feet on a stone; and he dressed my goings.

Brethren, I deem me not that I have comprehended; but one thing, I forget those things that be behind, and stretching forth myself to those things that be before,

and pursue to the ordained meed [or to the prize] of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

And I bethought in thy behests; which I loved.

They said, The people is blessed, that hath these things; blessed is the people, whose Lord is the God of it.

Have thou trust in the Lord, of all thine heart; and lean thou not to thy prudence.

In all thy ways think on him, and he shall dress thy goings.

Abide thou the Lord, do thou manly; and thine heart be comforted, and suffer thou for the Lord.

Do not thou be overcome of evil, but overcome thou evil by good.