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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."
But this is an advantage to the land in every way: a king committed to a cultivated field.
whom, having not seen, you love; and in whom, though you do not see Him now, you believe and you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory,receiving as the result of your faith the salvation of your souls.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness, and self-control; against such there is no law.
so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you.
Your testimonies have I taken as my heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
I have spoken these things to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that people may not find out anything that comes after them.
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; and as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Nevertheless do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Likewise, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous men who need no repentance.
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song, and sing praises.
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.
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song, and sing praises.Sing to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of a psalm,with trumpets and the sound of the horn; make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King!
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and with the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.
How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!For a day in Your courtyards is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.O Lord of Hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You.My soul longs and even yearns for the courtyards of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
For His anger endures but for a moment; His favor is for a lifetime; weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
But let all those who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; let those who love Your name be joyful in You.
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.
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.I will give You thanks forever for what You have done. In the presence of Your saints I will wait on Your name, for it is good.
Let us look 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.
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth!Serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with singing.
For the kingdom of God does not mean eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
For You have made him most blessed forever; You have made him glad with the joy of Your presence.
Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, and His praise in the congregation of the saints.
Rejoice and be very glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in this manner they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
For You, O Lord, have made me glad through Your work; I will sing joyfully at the works of Your hands.
And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not give up.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout. They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance.
The eyes of all look expectantly to You, and You give them their food in due season.You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations,for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man viewing his natural face in a mirror.He views himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deeds.If anyone among you seems to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.knowing that the trying of your faith develops patience.
“His master 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 the joy of your master.’
Therefore the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.
Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and so we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones; and shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
to preserve 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.
Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord turns back the captivity of His people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be glad.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me, and it is reassuring for you.
O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever!All nations surrounded me; but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me; but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns, but in the name of the Lord I destroyed them.You pushed against me violently, that I might fall, but the Lord helped me.The Lord is my strength and song; and He has become my salvation.The voice of rejoicing and salvation 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 the Lord.The Lord has disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will enter through them, and I will give thanks to the Lord.Let Israel now say, “His mercy endures forever.”
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.
Then the people rejoiced because they had offered willingly, for with a whole heart they had offered freely to the Lord; and King David also rejoiced greatly.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.
Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; let those who love Your salvation say continually, “The Lord be magnified!”
It shall be said in that day: Behold, this is our God, for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have held me by my right hand.You will guide me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
When the Lord brought back the captives of Zion, we were like those who dream.Then was our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing; then said they among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”
Through Him, then, let us continually offer to God the sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
Then David told the leaders of the Levites to position their brothers the singers with musical instruments, harps, lyres, and cymbals to resound with joyful songs.
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.
the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid. And with joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength because of Your enemies, to silence the enemy and the avenger.
My soul longs and even yearns for the courtyards of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows right well.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.
I called upon the Lord in my distress; the Lord answered me and set me in an open place.The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
Having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all for your joyful advancement of the faith,
Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who take refuge in You before the sons of men!
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet drink, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
But let all those who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; let those who love Your name be joyful in You.For You, Lord, will bless the righteous; You surround him with favor like a shield.
I will be glad and rejoice in Your lovingkindness, for You have seen my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities,
All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head. They shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy with Your presence.’