108 Bible Verses about Joy

In the Old Testament, they celebrated joy with feasts and festivals. My joy comes from discovering God's will for my life, which the Bible reveals is good, pleasing, and perfect. It's not about what's happening around me or how I'm feeling at the moment, but about finding true joy in the salvation I have in Jesus.

I want to encourage you today to let go of any sadness you're holding onto. Cast out bitterness and resentment from your heart, and let the everlasting joy of Jesus flood your soul. You'll find you have so much to smile about, and so much less to feel down about.

Think about it: everything around you was created by God for your enjoyment. So smile for Him, and let your heart overflow with love in His presence. That gray sky will soon disappear, and He’ll paint a rainbow just for you.

He’s turned my mourning into dancing; He’s filled me with joy. Sure, life isn’t always happy-go-lucky, but in God, I find peace because I trust that He’s working everything out for my good (Romans 8:28).

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!

Let each one give just as he decides in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

A bad man will by no means obey counsel, neither will he say anything seasonable, or of good report.

You have made known to me the ways of life; You will fill me with joy with Your countenance: at Your right hand there are delights forever.

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

Your mercy, O Lord, has helped me. O Lord, according to the multitude of my griefs within my heart, Your consolation has soothed my soul.

rejoicing in hope, enduring in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Rejoice always!Pray without ceasing!In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

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

A Psalm for Thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with exaltation.

A glad heart promotes health, but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.

Son, if your heart is wise, you shall also gladden my heart;

I will be glad and exalt in You: I will sing to Your name, O Most High.

Joy rests long with the righteous, but the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes.

The Lord your God is in you; the Mighty One shall save you: He shall bring joy upon you, and shall refresh you with His love; and He shall rejoice over you with delight as in a day of feasting.

I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of Your wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exaltation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

Go, eat your bread with mirth, and drink your wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favorably accepted your works.

The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in Him, and I am helped; my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to Him.

I know that there is no good in them, except for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.Also, every man who shall eat and drink, and see good in all his labor, this is a gift of God.

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

For though the fig tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in God my Savior.

Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,

For anger is in His wrath, but life in His favor; weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy comes in the morning.

You have turned my mourning into joy for me; You have removed my sackcloth, and have clothed me with gladness;

A Psalm of David. Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous; praise becomes the upright.

Draw near to Him, and be enlightened; and your faces shall by no means be ashamed.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation; establish me with Your directing Spirit.

But let the righteous rejoice; let them exalt before God: let them be delighted with joy.

For You, O Lord, have made me glad with Your work; and in the operations of Your hands will I rejoice.

Light has sprung up for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous; and give thanks for a remembrance of His holiness.

Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exaltation; then would they say among the Gentiles, The Lord has done great things among them.The Lord has done great things for us, we became joyful.

Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, but blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

Let Israel rejoice in Him that made him; and let the children of Zion exalt in their King.

There is deceit in the heart of him that imagines evil, but they that love peace shall rejoice.

When the heart rejoices, the countenance is cheerful, but when it is in sorrow, the countenance is sad.

The eyes of the wicked are always looking for evil things, but the good are always quiet.

The eye that sees rightly rejoices the heart, and a good report fattens the bones.

It is the joy of the righteous to do judgment, but a holy man is abominable with evildoers.

For God has given wisdom, knowledge, and joy to the man who is good in His sight, but He has given to the sinner trouble, to add and to heap up, that He may give to him that is good before God; for this is also vanity and grasping for the wind.

Yea, and as for every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given to him power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

Behold, my God is my Savior; I will trust in Him, and not be afraid; for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and has become my salvation.Therefore draw water with joy out of the wells of salvation.

and shall return, and come to Zion with joy, and everlasting joy shall be over their head; for on their head shall be praise and exaltation, and joy shall take possession of them; sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.

For by the help of the Lord they shall return, and come to Zion with joy and everlasting exaltation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head; pain, grief, and groaning have fled away.

For you shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness; for the mountains and the hills shall exalt to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.

that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

Consume them, and Your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart. For Your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

And going out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to report to His disciples.

and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names have been written in heaven."

I say to you that likewise there shall be more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine righteous who need no repentance.

Just so, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

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

Most assuredly I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be grieved, but your grief will be turned into joy.

But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

You have made known to me the ways of life; You will fill me full of joy in Your presence."

And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.And not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;

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

Great is my confidence toward you, great is my boasting concerning you. I have been filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.

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

always in every prayer of mine in behalf of you all, with joy,

For the same reason you also rejoice and rejoice together with me.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not troublesome, but for you it is safe.

and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

being strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, for all endurance and longsuffering with joy;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, in that you received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

Rejoice always!

longing to see you, having recalled your tears, that I may be filled with joy,

looking unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials,knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

but inasmuch as you partake in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, in order that also at the unveiling of His glory, you may rejoice with great happiness.

And these things we write to you that our joy may be fulfilled.

But let all that trust in You be glad in You: they shall rejoice forever, and You shall dwell among them; and all that love Your name shall rejoice in You.

Be glad in the Lord, and exalt, you righteous; and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart!

But my soul shall exalt in the Lord; it shall delight in His salvation.

For the end, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with a voice of exaltation.

Blessed are the people that knows the joyful sound; they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance.And in Your name shall they rejoice all the day; and in Your righteousness shall they be exalted.

The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us rejoice in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Savior.Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to Him with psalms.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exaltation, bringing their sheaves with them.

The multitude of the people which you have brought down in your joy, they shall even rejoice before you as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.

and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.

Rejoice, you heavens; and let the earth be glad; let the mountains break forth with joy; for the Lord has had mercy on His people, and has comforted the lowly ones of His people.

and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for He has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy; He has put a turban on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

And you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall thrive like grass; and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear Him, and He shall threaten the disobedient.

For I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel. You shall yet take your timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.

the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of men saying, Give thanks to the Lord Almighty; for the Lord is good; for His mercy endures forever. And they shall bring gifts into the house of the Lord, for I will turn all the captivity of that land as before, said the Lord.

yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in God my Savior.

And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.

Then the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.

So he hurried and came down, and received Him, rejoicing.

"He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. Therefore my joy has been fulfilled.

And there was great joy in that city.

Therefore, being sent forth by the church, they were passing through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling in detail about the conversion of the Gentiles; and they were causing great joy to all the brothers.

so that in joy I may come to you through the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you.

Finally brothers, farewell. Restore yourselves, comfort yourselves, be in agreement, be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Therefore, my beloved and longed for brothers, my joy and crown, in this way stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for His body, which is the church,

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?For you are our glory and joy.

For whatever thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we are rejoicing because of you in the presence of our God,

I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father.

For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and witnessed to the truth which is in you, just as you walk in truth.I have no greater joy than these things, that I hear that my children are walking in truth.

Now to Him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to make you stand before His glory, blameless with exultation,

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