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."

¶ And there is higher authority in all of the things of the earth, but he who serves the field is king.

whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though at present ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;receiving the end of your faith, even the saving health of your souls.

But the fruit of the Spirit is this: Charity, joy, peace, tolerance, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep.

that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and may be refreshed together with you.

¶ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

These things I have spoken unto you that my joy may abide in you and that your joy might be fulfilled.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as above all riches.

In the day of good enjoy that which is good, but in the day of adversity open your eyes and learn: God also has made the one (the day of adversity) before the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Notwithstanding, rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.

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

¶ Sing with joy unto the Lord, all the earth; lift up thy voice and rejoice and sing praises.

¶ O come, let us bring joy unto the Lord; let us sing with joy unto the rock of our saving health.

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

¶ Sing with joy unto the Lord, all the earth; lift up thy voice and rejoice and sing praises.Sing praises unto the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the voice of a song.With trumpets and the sound of the shofar make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.

Then I will enter in to the altar of God, unto the God of my exceeding joy; yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

¶ How amiable are thy habitations, O Lord of the hosts!for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand outside of them. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.For the Lord God is a sun and shield unto us; the Lord will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good from those that walk uprightly.O Lord of the hosts, happy is the man that trusts in thee.My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; in thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice.

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is this: Charity, joy, peace, tolerance, gentleness, goodness, faith,

The Lord has done great things with us, of which we shall be glad.

¶ And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.

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

¶ Always rejoice.

Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

And all those that put their trust in thee shall rejoice: they shall ever be in jubilee, for thou shalt cover them; and all that love thy name shall be joyful in thee.

¶ I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of saving health; he has surrounded me with the robe of righteousness; as a bridegroom he has arrayed me, and as a bride made up of his jewels.

¶ A joyful heart makes a beautiful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is abated.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the eternal mercy of God for ever.I will praise thee for ever because thou hast done it, and I will wait on thy name, for it is good before thy merciful ones.

with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who having been offered joy, endured the cross,{Gr. stauros-stake} despising the shame and was seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

¶ I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

¶ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth.Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with joy.

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

For thou hast made him most blessed for ever; thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of saving health.

¶ A joyful heart shall do good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall rejoice before God; they shall dance with joy.

Those that sow with tears shall reap with joy.

¶ Halelu-JAH. Sing unto the Lord a new song, let his praise be in the congregation of the merciful.

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

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest secure.

For ye shall go out with joy, and be returned 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.

For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad with thy work; I will delight in the works of thy hands.

And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

Thou shalt prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup is running over.

My meditation of him shall be sweet; I will be glad in the Lord.

Set your sight on things above, not on things on the earth.

¶ Happy are the people that know how to enter into joy; they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.

Glory and beauty are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.

The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.Thou dost open thine hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diverse trials,for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.So then, leave all uncleanness and remains of malice and receive with meekness the word ingested within you, which is able to cause your souls to be saved.But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.For if anyone hears the word and does not put it into practice, this same is like unto the man beholding his natural face in a mirror:For he considered himself and went his way and in one hour forgot what he was like.But whosoever has looked attentively into the perfect law of liberty and has persevered in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, the same shall be blessed in their deed.If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep thyself unspotted from this world.knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful slave; thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

¶ I rejoice at thy spoken word, as one that finds great spoil.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High

¶ Halelu-JAH. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, Beth in the company and in the congregation of the upright.

¶ The spirit of man will bear his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; thou dost maintain my lot.

¶ Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.

by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory of the sons of God.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

¶ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight.

¶ O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise; this is my glory.

¶ O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.

to order in Zion those that mourn, to give unto 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.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing praises unto thee and my soul, which thou hast ransomed.

Oh that the saving health of Israel were come out of Zion! When the Lord turns back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Therefore our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in the name of his holiness.

¶ It remains, my brethren, that ye rejoice in the Lord. It does not bother me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe.

¶ O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good because his mercy endures for ever.All the nations compassed me about; but in the name of the Lord I will cut them off.They compassed me about; yea, they laid hold of me; but in the name of the Lord I will cut them off.They compassed me about like bees; they were quenched as the fire of thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will cut them off.Thou hast thrust at me with violence that I might fall, but the Lord helped me.JAH is my strength and song and is become my saving health.The voice of singing and saving health is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.The right hand of the Lord is exalted; the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.I shall not die, but live and declare the works of JAH.JAH has chastened me sore, but he has not given me over unto death.¶ Open unto me the gates of righteousness; I will go in through them; I will praise JAH.Let Israel now say that his mercy endures for ever.

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

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

Then the people rejoiced to have offered willingly because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord. Likewise, David the king rejoiced with great joy

I will speak of the beauty of the glory of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works.

The voice of singing and saving health is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

In the same manner delight thyself in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

¶ And it shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God, whom we have waited for, and he has saved us: this is the Lord, whom we have waited for, we will be glad and rejoice in his saving health.

The merciful shall be joyful with glory; they shall sing aloud upon their beds.

to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent: all my delight is towards them.

Nevertheless I was continually with thee; thou hast apprehended me by my right hand.Thou hast guided me with thy counsel, and afterward thou shalt receive me unto glory.

¶ When the Lord shall turn again the captivity of Zion, we shall be like those that dream.Then our mouth shall be filled with laughter and our tongue with singing; then they shall say among the Gentiles, The Lord has done great things with them.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips confessing his name.

And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord; it shall rejoice in his saving health.

And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint of their brethren as singers with instruments of music, with psalteries and harps and cymbals sounding, and to lift up their voice with joy.

Rather I have quieted myself and caused my soul to become silent, that I might be as a child that is weaned of his mother, as one who is weaned from my own life.

I have longed for thy saving health, O Lord, and thy law is my delight.

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the hope 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.

Restore unto me the joy of thy saving health, and thy spirit of liberty shall uphold me.

¶ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like unto treasure hid in the field, which when found, a man hides it and, for the joy thereof, goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works, and that, my soul knows right well.

And again he says, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

Behold, O God my saving health, I will trust and not be afraid for JAH, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he also is become saving health unto me.

From a tight place I called upon JAH; and JAH answered me and set me in a wide place.The Lord is for me; I will not fear what man can do unto me.

And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith,

¶ Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for those that wait in thee before the sons of men!

Then he said unto them, Go, eat the fat, and drink sweet wine, and send portions unto those who have nothing prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord, and not sad; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

And all those that put their trust in thee shall rejoice: they shall ever be in jubilee, for thou shalt cover them; and all that love thy name shall be joyful in thee.For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy, for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities

¶ All the days of the poor are difficult, but he that is of a good heart has a continual feast.

Behold, O God my saving health, I will trust and not be afraid for JAH, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he also is become saving health unto me.Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of saving health.

Therefore the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head; they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,

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