112 Bible Verses about Joy

I want to tell you about a joy that can chase away every sadness and fill your heart to overflowing. It's not a fleeting feeling based on how your day is going, but something you build day by day in the presence of the Holy Spirit.

It's your relationship with the Holy Spirit that will lead you to truly know God. And once you know Him, you'll worship Him in a way that pours out of you like a river of praise, just thinking about how amazing your Savior is. You'll understand His goodness in your life, and laughter will just bubble up.

That's when you'll realize that the happiness this world offers is based on things that fade away, but the joy Jesus puts in your soul lasts forever. God wants you to find refuge in Him, and even in the midst of tears, to find a song of worship rising within you.

When you come to Him, surrendering at His feet, you'll be filled and comforted. Even when you're going through tough times, trials, and struggles, the joy of the Lord will be your strength, and you'll be able to keep going, fulfilling the purpose God has for you.

By God’s grace, His joy will uphold you and give you what you need to face anything. As Psalm 28:7 (NIV) says, "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him."

It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.

I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.

I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.

O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.

Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.Make melody to the Lord with instruments of music; with a corded instrument and the voice of song.With wind instruments and the sound of the horn, make a glad cry before the Lord, the King.

Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.

For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.

Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.

Have joy at all times.

Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.

But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.

Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went. I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

A Psalm of Praise. Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth.Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.

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

For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.

Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

Let the Lord be praised. Make a new song to the Lord, let his praise be in the meeting of his saints.

Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.

For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.

Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

Honour and glory are before him: strength and joy are in his holy place.

The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time.By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

Let the Lord be praised. I will give praise to the Lord with all my heart, among the upright, and in the meeting of the people.

The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?

The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.

Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.

Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

A Song. A Psalm. Of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs and melody, even with my glory.

O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

For in him our hearts have joy; in his holy name is our hope.

For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.

O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.Let Israel now say, that his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music.

Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.

My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works.

The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.

Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May the Lord be great.

And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

A Song of the going up. When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.

And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.

And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.

See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.

All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.

The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.

But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

And again he says, Take part, you Gentiles, in the joy of his people.

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.

I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.The Lord is on my side; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;

O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.

Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.

You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.

Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

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