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112 Bible Verses about Joy
I want to tell you about a joy that can chase away every sadness and fill your heart to overflowing. It's not a fleeting feeling based on how your day is going, but something you build day by day in the presence of the Holy Spirit.
It's your relationship with the Holy Spirit that will lead you to truly know God. And once you know Him, you'll worship Him in a way that pours out of you like a river of praise, just thinking about how amazing your Savior is. You'll understand His goodness in your life, and laughter will just bubble up.
That's when you'll realize that the happiness this world offers is based on things that fade away, but the joy Jesus puts in your soul lasts forever. God wants you to find refuge in Him, and even in the midst of tears, to find a song of worship rising within you.
When you come to Him, surrendering at His feet, you'll be filled and comforted. Even when you're going through tough times, trials, and struggles, the joy of the Lord will be your strength, and you'll be able to keep going, fulfilling the purpose God has for you.
By God’s grace, His joy will uphold you and give you what you need to face anything. As Psalm 28:7 (NIV) says, "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him."
But the advantage of the land in everything is this—a king committed to a cultivated field.
And though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
receiving as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
In the day when there is good be of good cheer, But in the day when there is evil see— God has made the one as well as the other So that man will not find out anything that will be after him.
as sorrowful but always rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”
I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
¶Make a loud shout to Yahweh, all the earth; Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises.
Oh come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh, Let us make a loud shout to the rock of our salvation.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with gratefulness in your hearts to God.
¶Make a loud shout to Yahweh, all the earth; Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises.
Sing praises to Yahweh with the lyre, With the lyre and the sound of singing.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn Make a loud shout before King Yahweh.
Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.
How lovely are Your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts!
For better is a day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would choose to stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For Yahweh God is a sun and shield; Yahweh gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk blamelessly.
O Yahweh of hosts, How blessed is the man who trusts in You!
My soul has longed and even fainted for the courts of Yahweh; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; Weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous ones, And give thanks for the remembrance of His holy name.
¶But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You.
¶I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; My soul will rejoice in my God, For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a headdress, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
A glad heart makes a face look good, But when the heart is pained, the spirit is broken.
¶But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it, And I will hope on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your holy ones.
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Make a loud shout to Yahweh, all the earth.
Serve Yahweh with gladness; Come before Him with joyful songs.
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
For You make him most blessed forever; You make him joyful with gladness in Your presence.
But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God; And let them rejoice with gladness.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
“For you will go out with gladness And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
For You, O Yahweh, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows.
How blessed are the people who know the loud shout of joy! O Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your face.
The eyes of all wait on You, And You give them their food in due time.
You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials,
for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in gentleness receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But become doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
for once he looked at himself and has gone away, he immediately forgot what kind of person he was.
But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone thinks himself to be religious while not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
knowing that the testing of your faith brings about perseverance.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’
Therefore Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes.
¶Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him, The salvation of my presence and my God.
Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart, In the council of the upright and in the congregation.
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, But as for a broken spirit, who can bear it?
through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, you righteous ones; And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.
To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a headdress instead of ashes, The oil of rejoicing instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of Yahweh, that He may show forth His beautiful glory.
My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to You; And my soul, which You have redeemed.
¶Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores His captive people, May Jacob rejoice, may Israel be glad.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for He is good; For His lovingkindness endures forever.
¶All nations surrounded me; In the name of Yahweh I will surely cut them off.
They surrounded me, indeed, they surrounded me; In the name of Yahweh I will surely cut them off.
They surrounded me like bees; They were extinguished as a fire of thorns; In the name of Yahweh I will surely cut them off.
You pushed me down violently to make me fall, But Yahweh helped me.
Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.
¶The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
The right hand of Yahweh is exalted; The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
I will not die; indeed I will live, And recount the works of Yah.
Yah has disciplined me severely, But He has not given me over to death.
¶Open to me the gates of righteousness; I shall enter through them, I shall give thanks to Yah.
Oh let Israel say, “His lovingkindness endures forever.”
And the ransomed of Yahweh will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting gladness upon their heads. They will attain delight and gladness, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Then the people were glad because they had offered so willingly, for they made their freewill offering to Yahweh with a whole heart, and King David also was exceedingly glad.
On the glorious splendor of Your majesty And on the words of Your wondrous deeds, I will muse.
¶The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let those who love Your salvation say continually, “Yahweh be magnified!”
And it will be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God in whom we have hoped that He would save us. This is Yahweh in whom we have hoped; Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
As for the saints who are in the earth, They are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight.
Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand.
With Your counsel You will lead me, And afterward take me in glory.
When Yahweh returned the captive ones of Zion, We were like those who dream.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter And our tongue with shouts of joy; Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
Then David said to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise a sound of gladness.
Surely I have soothed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
The precepts of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes.
“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
From the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
My soul has longed and even fainted for the courts of Yahweh; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not dread; For Yah—Yahweh Himself—is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.”
¶From my distress I called upon Yah; Yah answered me and set me in a large place.
Yahweh is for me; I will not fear; What can man do to me?
And convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
¶How great is Your goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You, Which You have worked for those who take refuge in You, Before the sons of men!
Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
¶But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You.
For it is You who blesses the righteous one, O Yahweh, You surround him with favor as with a large shield.
I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness, Because You have seen my affliction; You have known the troubles of my soul,
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not dread; For Yah—Yahweh Himself—is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.”
Therefore you will joyously draw water From the springs of salvation.
So the ransomed of Yahweh will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, And everlasting gladness will be on their heads. They will obtain joy and gladness, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made complete.
‘You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of gladness with Your presence.’