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: and again I say, Rejoice.

Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken at the right time, how good it is!

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fulness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer;

Rejoice at all times.Pray without ceasing.In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

​Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the lands.Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O thou most High.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept the festival.

Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.

I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

You have turned for me my mourning into singing: you have put off my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness;

Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous: for praise beautifies the upright.

They looked to him, and were enlightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the works of your hands.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD has done great things for them.The LORD has done great things for us; for which we are glad.

Happy is that people, that is in such a state: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy.

A merry heart makes a cheerful appearance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart: and a good report makes the bones fat.

It is joy to the just to do justice: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives toil, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation.Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

To appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

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, you good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of your lord.

And they departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy; and ran to bring his disciples word.

And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.

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

I say to you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.

These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Truly, truly, I say to you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your presence.

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

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;

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

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying over you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

For the same reason also do you have joy, and rejoice with me.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not burdensome, but for you it is safe.

And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

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 followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit:

Rejoice at all times.

Greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

My brethren, count it all joy when you meet with various temptations;Knowing this, that the testing of your faith produces patience.

But rejoice, to the extent that you are sharers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.

And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

​O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

Blessed are the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.

O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

You multiplied the nation, and did not increase the joy: but now they rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy on his afflicted.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.

The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endures for ever: and of those who shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return, as at the first, says the LORD.

Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.

And the angel said to them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.

He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

And there was great joy in that city.

And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy to all the believers.

That I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking in the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?For you are our glory and joy.

For what thanks can we render to God again for you for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

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

For I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, even as you walk in the truth.I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

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