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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).
Let each one give as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion—for God loves a cheerful giver.
You make known to me the path of life. Abundance of joys are in Your presence, eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
Rejoice always,pray constantly,in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Messiah Yeshua.
So also you have sorrow now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you!
A psalm of thanksgiving. Shout joyfully to Adonai, all the earth!Serve Adonai with gladness. Come before His presence with joyful singing.
The Torah of Adonai is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of Adonai is trustworthy, making the simple wise.
Adonai your God is in your midst— a mighty Savior! He will delight over you with joy. He will quiet you with His love. He will dance for joy over you with singing.’
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day: “Where is your God?”
Go! Eat your bread with gladness and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted your deeds.
Adonai is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped. Therefore my heart leaps for joy, and I will praise Him with my song.
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and enjoy themselves in their lifetime.Also when anyone eats and drinks, and finds satisfaction in all of his labor, it is the gift of God.
for the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but righteousness and shalom and joy in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, Though the olive crop fail, and the fields produce no food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no cattle in the stalls.Yet will I triumph in Adonai, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. And even though you don’t see Him now, you trust Him and are filled with a joy that is glorious beyond words,
As smoke is blown away, may You blow them away. As wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.
Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.Rejoice in Adonai, you righteous ones, and praise His holy Name.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with a song of joy. Then they said among the nations, “Adonai has done great things for them.”Adonai has done great things for us —we are joyful!
For to the one who pleases Him, He gives wisdom, knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating wealth to give it to one who pleases God. This also is only vapor and striving after the wind.
For he will not often consider the days of his life, since God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and will not be afraid. For the Lord Adonai is my strength and my song. He also has become my salvation.”With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
The ransomed of Adonai will return and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy upon their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Now the ransomed of Adonai will return, and come to Zion with singing. Everlasting joy will be upon their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
“Yes, you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills will break forth before you singing, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands!
to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Adonai, that He may be glorified.
Your words were found, so I ate them. Your words were a delight to me and the joy of my heart. For I am called by Your Name, Adonai-Elohei-Tzva’ot.
I will fill the soul of the kohanim with fatness and My people will be satisfied with My goodness.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great! For in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You were faithful with a little, so I’ll put you in charge of much. Enter into your master’s joy!’
They quickly left the tomb, with fear yet with great joy, and ran to bring news to His disciples.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been written in the heavens.”
I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one repenting sinner than over the ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.”
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Amen, amen I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will celebrate. You will be filled with sorrow, but your sorrow will turn to joy!
“But now I am coming to You. I say these words while I am still in the world, so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.
Through Him we also have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and boast in the hope of God’s glory.Now the Torah came in so that transgression might increase. But where sin increased, grace overflowed even more—so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness, to eternal life through Messiah Yeshua our Lord.And not only that, but we also boast in suffering—knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and shalom in trusting, so you may overflow with hope in the power of the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with encouragement. I overflow with joy in all our troubles.
But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To keep writing the same things to you is not troublesome for me—but for you it is a safeguard.
And the shalom of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Messiah Yeshua.
We pray that you may be strengthened with all the power that comes from His glorious might, for you to have all kinds of patience and steadfastness. With joy
Let the word of Messiah dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with gratitude in your hearts to God.
You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the message in much tribulation, with the joy of the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
focusing on Yeshua, the initiator and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame; and He has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,for human anger doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.So put away all moral filth and excess of evil and receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.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 looks at himself and goes away, he immediately forgets what sort of person he was.But the one who looks intently into the perfect Torah, the Torah that gives freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts—he shall be blessed in what he does.If anyone thinks he is religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is futile.Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Instead, rejoice insofar as you share in the sufferings of Messiah, so that at the revelation of His glory you may also rejoice and be glad.
Declare them guilty, O God! Let them fall by their own schemes. Banish them because of their many transgressions— for they have rebelled against You.
Be glad in Adonai and rejoice, you righteous, and shout for joy, all who are upright in heart.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne. Lovingkindness and truth go before You.Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout, They walk in the light of Your presence, Adonai.
O come, let us sing for joy to Adonai. Let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.For forty years I loathed that generation. So I said: ‘It is a people whose heart goes astray, who do not know My ways.’Therefore I swore in My anger, ‘They shall never enter into My rest.’”Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving. Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.
Those who sow in tears will reap with a song of joy.Whoever keeps going out weeping, carrying his bag of seed, will surely come back with a song of joy, carrying his sheaves.
For You will break the burdensome yoke and the rod on his shoulder— the war-club of his oppressor— as in the day of Midian.
The meek will add to their joy in Adonai, and the needy of humanity will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Shout for joy, heavens! Rejoice, earth! Break forth into ringing shouts, O mountains! For Adonai has comforted His people and has compassion on His afflicted.”
I will rejoice greatly in Adonai. My soul will be joyful in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me in a robe of righteousness— like a bridegroom wearing a priestly turban, like a bride adorning herself with her jewels.
You will see, your heart will rejoice, and your bones will flourish like grass. So the hand of Adonai will be known to His servants, and His indignation to His enemies.
Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria— planters will plant and use them.
the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them who say: ‘Give thanks to Adonai-Tzva’ot, for Adonai is good, for His love endures forever!’ as they bring offerings of thanksgiving into the House of Adonai. For I will restore the land from the exile as it was at first,” declares Adonai.
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! For behold, I proclaim Good News to you, which will be great joy to all the people.
The one who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the best man rejoices when he stands and hears the bridegroom’s voice. So now my joy is complete!
So they were sent on their way by the Antioch community. They were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they were bringing great joy to all the brothers and sisters.
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Aim for restoration, encourage one another, be of the same mind, live in shalom—and the God of love and shalom will be with you.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters whom I love and long for, my joy and crown—stand firm in the Lord in this way, my loved ones.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and in my physical body—for the sake of His body, Messiah’s community—I fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Messiah.
For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Yeshua at His coming? Is it not you?On the contrary, after we had first suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to tell you the Good News of God—even in the midst of much opposition.For you are our glory and joy!
For what thanks would be enough to offer to God, in return for all the joy we feel before our God because of you?
I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we received as a commandment from the Father.
For I was overjoyed when some brethren came and testified of the truth in you—how you are walking in truth.I have no greater joy than this—to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Now to the One who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy,