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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 purposes in his heart, not of grief or of necessity, for Elohim loves a joyous giver.
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And how good is a word spoken in its season!
You show me the path of life; In Your presence is joy to satisfaction; At Your right hand are pleasures forever.
Rejoice always,pray without ceasing,in all circumstances give thanks, for this is the desire of Elohim in Messiah יהושע for you.
“And you, therefore, have grief now, but I shall see you again and your heart shall rejoice, and no one takes your joy away from you.
Raise a shout for יהוה, All the earth!Serve יהוה with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
The orders of יהוה are straight, rejoicing the heart; The command of יהוה is clear, enlightening the eyes;
“יהוה your Elohim in your midst, is mighty to save. He rejoices over you with joy, He is silent in His love, He rejoices over you with singing.”
These I remember, and pour out my being within me. For I used to pass along with the throng; I went with them to the House of Elohim, With the voice of joy and praise, A multitude celebrating a festival!
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a glad heart; for Elohim has already approved your works.
יהוה is my strength, and my shield; My heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I thank Him.
I know that there is no good for them but to rejoice, and to do good in their lives,and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is a gift of Elohim.
For the reign of Elohim is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Set-apart Spirit.
Though the fig tree does not blossom, And there is no fruit on the vine, The yield of the olive has failed, And the fields brought forth no food, The flock has been cut off from the fold, And there is no herd in the stalls,Yet I exult in יהוה, I rejoice in the Elohim of my deliverance.
whom having not seen, you love; in whom you exult with unspeakable and esteemed joy, yet not seeing, but believing,
For His displeasure is for a moment, His delight is for life; Weeping might last for the night, But joy comes in the morning.
You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
For You have made me rejoice with Your work, O יהוה, I shout for joy at the works of Your hands.
Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.Rejoice in יהוה, you righteous, And give thanks at the remembrance of His Set-apartness.
Then our mouth shall be filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing, Then shall they say among the nations, “יהוה has done great deeds for them.”יהוה shall do great deeds for us, We shall be glad.
Let Yisra’ĕl rejoice in their Maker; Let the children of Tsiyon exult in their Sovereign.
For He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His eyes. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give to him who is good before Elohim. That too is futile and feeding on wind.
Further, when Elohim has given any man riches and wealth, and permitted him to enjoy them, and to receive his portion and rejoice in his labour, this is a gift of Elohim.
“See, Ěl is my deliverance, I trust and am not afraid. For Yah, יהוה, is my strength and my song; and He has become my deliverance.”And you shall draw water with joy from the fountains of deliverance.
And the ransomed of יהוה shall return and enter Tsiyon with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
And let the ransomed of יהוה return. And they shall come to Tsiyon with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. Let them attain joy and gladness; sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
“For with joy you go out, and with peace you are brought in – the mountains and the hills break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field clap the hands.
to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned.
Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. For Your Name is called on me, O יהוה Elohim of hosts.
“Then shall a maiden rejoice in a dance, and young men and old, together. And I shall turn their mourning to joy, and shall comfort them, and shall make them rejoice from their sorrow,
Rejoice and be glad, because your reward in the heavens is great. For in this way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
And his master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy servant. You were trustworthy over a little, I shall set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ ”
And they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to report to His taught ones.
“Blessed are you who hunger now, because you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, because you shall laugh.
“But do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names have been written in the heavens.”
“I say to you that in the same way there shall be more joy in the heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety-nine righteous ones who need no repentance.
I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting.
These words I have spoken to you, so that My joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete.
“Truly, truly, I say to you that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. And you shall be grieved, but your grief shall become joy.
“And now I come to You. And I speak these words in the world, so that they have My joy completed in them.
through whom also we have access by belief into this favour in which we stand, and we exult in the expectation of the esteem of Elohim.And the Torah came in beside, so that the trespass would increase. But where sin increased, favour increased still more,so that as sin did reign in death, even so favour might reign through righteousness to everlasting life through יהושע Messiah our Master.And not only this, but we also exult in pressures, knowing that pressure works endurance;
And the Elohim of expectation fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you overflow with expectation by the power of the Set-apart Spirit.
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 pressure.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness,
For the rest, my brothers, rejoice in יהוה. To write the same matters to you is truly no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.
And the peace of Elohim, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds through Messiah יהושע.
being empowered with all power, according to the might of His esteem, for all endurance and patience with joy,
Let the Word of Messiah dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing with pleasure in your hearts to the Master in psalms and songs of praise and spiritual songs.
And you became imitators of us and of the Master, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Set-apart Spirit,
looking to the Prince and Perfecter of our belief, יהושע, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the stake, having despised the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim.
My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of Elohim.Therefore put away all filthiness and overflow of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your lives.And become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.Because 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 he looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like.But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the Torah.If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is worthless.Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.knowing that the proving of your belief works endurance.
but as you share Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice, in order that you might rejoice exultingly at the revelation of His esteem.
But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; Let them ever shout for joy, because You shelter them; And let those who love Your Name exult in You.
Blessed are the people Who know the sounding! They walk, O יהוה, in the light of Your face.In Your Name they rejoice all day long, And they are exalted in Your righteousness.
Come, let us sing to יהוה! Let us raise a shout to the Rock of our deliverance.For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they enter into My rest...’Let us come before His face with thanksgiving; Let us raise a shout to Him in song.
Those sowing in tears, shall reap with songs of joy.He who goes on and weeps, Bearing seed for sowing, Shall indeed come in with rejoicing, Bearing his sheaves.
You shall increase the nation; You shall make its joy great. They shall rejoice before You, as in the joy of harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
And the meek ones shall increase their joy in יהוה, and the poor among men rejoice in the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl.
Sing, O heavens, rejoice, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For יהוה shall comfort His people and have compassion on His afflicted ones.
I greatly rejoice in יהוה, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has put garments of deliverance on me, 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 you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones flourish as tender grass. And the hand of יהוה shall be known to His servants, and His displeasure to His enemies.
“I am going to build you again. And you shall be rebuilt, O maiden of Yisra’ĕl! Again you shall take up your tambourines, and go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.
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 are saying, “Praise יהוה of hosts, for יהוה is good, for His loving-commitment is forever,” of those who are bringing the offering of praise into the House of יהוה. For I shall turn back the captivity of the land, as at the first,’ declares יהוה.
And the messenger said to them, “Do not be afraid, for look, I bring you good news of great joy which shall be to all people.
“He that 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. So this joy of mine is complete.
So, being sent on their way by the assembly, they passed through Phoenicia and Shomeron, relating the conversion of the nations. And they were causing great joy to all the brothers.
that I might come to you with joy, through the desire of Elohim, and be refreshed together with you.
For the rest, brothers, rejoice. Be made perfect, be encouraged, be of one mind, live in peace. And the Elohim of love and peace shall be with you.
So then, my brothers, beloved and longed-for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Master, beloved.
who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in Messiah’s afflictions, for the sake of His Body, which is the assembly,
For what is our expectation, or joy, or crown of boasting? Is it not even you, before our Master יהושע Messiah at His coming?But having suffered before and having been mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our Elohim to speak to you the Good News of Elohim in much struggle.For you are our esteem and joy.
For what thanks are we able to return to Elohim for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake in the presence of our Elohim,
I rejoiced greatly because I found some of your children walking in truth, as we received a command from the Father.
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and witnessed of the truth in you, as you walk in the truth.I have no greater joy than to hear of my children walking in truth.
And to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of His esteem with exceeding joy,