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107 Bible verses about Smiling
Choosing to smile authentically, and even bringing a smile to someone else's face, can be a truly good thing, when the time and place are right. It's all about seeing a smile as something positive, a way to lift your own spirits and maybe even help someone else along the way.
Of course, too much of anything isn't good. There's a sweet spot between being overly serious and plastering on a fake smile. It's a balance where wisdom and joy, seriousness and a genuine smile can exist together beautifully. Everything has its time and place.
Laughter is an expression of the freedom Christ gave us through his loving sacrifice. And a heartfelt smile can be incredibly healing, especially for a hurting heart. Smiling through pain and rejoicing in your Creator – that’s what God wants for you, always.
I don't know what you're going through right now, but I want to encourage you to dry your tears, lift your head, and smile again. Because in Jesus, you have so much to be joyful about.
You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.
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’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord’s commands are pure and give insight for life.
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.
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.
Always rejoice,
constantly pray,
in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
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.
For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.
Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.
Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance! Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey!
May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, “May God be praised!”
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.
Come! Let’s sing for joy to the Lord! Let’s shout out praises to our protector who delivers us!
For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
Let’s enter his presence with thanksgiving! Let’s shout out to him in celebration!
The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy.
You godly ones, rejoice in the Lord! Give thanks to his holy name.
Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.
The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.
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.
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.
So I perceived there is nothing better than for people to enjoy their work, because that is their reward; for who can show them what the future holds?
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.
In times of prosperity be joyful, but in times of adversity consider this: God has made one as well as the other, so that no one can discover what the future holds.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
“When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.
When you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,
so that it will not be obvious to others when you are fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
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.”
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,
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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.
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!
Rejoice in the Lord and be happy, you who are godly! Shout for joy, all you who are morally upright!
In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.
So I recommend the enjoyment of life, for there is nothing better on earth for a person to do except to eat, drink, and enjoy life. So joy will accompany him in his toil during the days of his life which God gives him on earth.
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.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.