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."

A lover of money never has enough money, and a lover of wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is futile.

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,receiving the outcome of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control—against such things there is no law.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

Then, God willing, I may come to you in joy, and together with you find rest.

Your testimonies I have as a heritage forever, for they are my heart’s joy.

These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full.

I rejoice in the way of Your testimonies above all wealth.

In a time of prosperity, prosper! But in a time of adversity, consider: God has made one as well as the other. Therefore man cannot discover anything about his future.

as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything.

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.”

Shout joyfully to Adonai, all the earth. Break forth, sing for joy, and sing praises.

O come, let us sing for joy to Adonai. Let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.

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.

Shout joyfully to Adonai, all the earth. Break forth, sing for joy, and sing praises.Sing praises to Adonai with the harp, with the harp and a voice of melody.With trumpets and sound of the shofar blast a sound before the King, Adonai.

Then I will come to the altar of God, to the God of my exceeding joy, and praise You upon the harp —O God, my God.

For the music director, upon the Gittite lyre, a psalm of the sons of Korah.O God, look at our shield, and look upon the face of Your anointed.For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather stand at the threshold of the House of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.For Adonai Elohim is a sun and a shield. Adonai gives grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.Adonai-Tzva’ot, blessed is the one who trusts in You.How lovely are Your tabernacles, Adonai-Tzva’ot!

You make known to me the path of life. Abundance of joys are in Your presence, eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

Rejoice in the Lord always—again I will say, rejoice!

Sing praise to Adonai, His faithful ones, and praise His holy name.

But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Adonai has done great things for us —we are joyful!

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.

This is the day that Adonai has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Rejoice always,

Rejoice in Adonai, you righteous ones, and praise His holy Name.

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.

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.

A joyful heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.

Then the righteous will see and fear, and laugh at him:“Here is the man who did not make God his stronghold. Instead he trusted in his great riches— and was strong in his evil desire.”

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.

Of David, when he feigned insanity before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he left.

A psalm of thanksgiving. Shout joyfully to Adonai, all the earth!Serve Adonai with gladness. Come before His presence with joyful singing.

for the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but righteousness and shalom and joy in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

His glory is great through Your salvation. Honor and majesty You bestow on him.

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

As smoke is blown away, may You blow them away. As wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.

Those who sow in tears will reap with a song of joy.

Halleluyah! Sing to Adonai a new song, His praise in the assembly of the kedoshim.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great! For in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

So my heart is glad and my soul rejoices. My body also rests secure.

“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!

with a ten-string harp, with resounding music on the lyre.

So let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we don’t give up.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed my head with oil, my cup overflows.

Let my meditation be sweet to Him. I—I will rejoice in Adonai.

Focus your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne. Lovingkindness and truth go before You.

Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy are in His place.

The eyes of all look to You and You give them their food on time.You open Your hand and satisfy every living thing with favor.

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.

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!’

I also had integrity with Him, and kept myself from my sin.

I rejoice in Your word, as one who finds great spoil.

Why are You downcast, O my soul? Why are you murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance.

I will praise Adonai with my whole heart. I will tell about all Your wonders.

Halleluyah! I praise Adonai with all my heart in the company and congregation of the upright.

One’s spirit sustains him through illness, but who can bear a crushed spirit?

Adonai is my portion and my cup. You cast my lot.

Restore us from captivity, Adonai, like streams in the Negev.

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.

Be glad in Adonai and rejoice, you righteous, and shout for joy, all who are upright in heart.

Help me walk in the path of Your mitzvot—for I delight in it.

A song, a psalm of David.

Praise Adonai, for He is good, for His lovingkindness endures forever.

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.

My lips will shout for joy —when I sing praises to You— and my soul, which You have redeemed.

O may He give Israel’s salvation out of Zion! When Adonai restores His captive people, Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad!

Our heart rejoices in Him, because we trusted in His holy Name.

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.

Praise Adonai, for He is good, for His lovingkindness endures forever.All nations surrounded me— in the Name of Adonai I cut them off.They surrounded me, yes, all around me— in the Name of Adonai I cut them off.They swarmed around me like bees— they were extinguished like burning thorns— in the Name of Adonai I cut them off.You pushed me hard to make me fall, but Adonai helped me.Adonai is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation.Shouts of joy and victory are in the tents of the righteous: “Adonai’s right hand is mighty!Adonai’s right hand is lifted high! Adonai’s right hand is mighty!”I will not die, but live, and proclaim what Adonai has done!Adonai has chastened me hard, but has not given me over to death.Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and praise Adonai.O let Israel say: For His lovingkindness endures forever.

Sing to Adonai with thanksgiving. Sing praises to our God on the harp.

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.

Then the people rejoiced over their freewill offerings because with a whole heart they offered willingly to Adonai. King David also rejoiced with great joy.

I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty and Your wonders.

Shouts of joy and victory are in the tents of the righteous: “Adonai’s right hand is mighty!

Delight yourself in Adonai, and He will give you the requests of your heart.

Let those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be appalled over their own shame.

It will be said in that day: “Behold, this is our God, We waited for Him—He will save us. This is Adonai—we waited for Him. We will rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

Let the kedoshim exult in glory. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

As for the kedoshim who are in the land, they are noble—in them is all my delight.

Yet I am continually with You. You hold my right hand.You guide me with Your counsel, and afterward You will take me into glory.

A Song of Ascents. When Adonai restored the captives of Zion, it was as if we were dreaming.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.”

Through Yeshua then, let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips giving thanks to His name.

Then my soul will rejoice in Adonai and delight in His salvation.

David ordered the leaders of the Levites to appoint their kinsmen, the singers, with musical instruments, harps, lyres, and cymbals, to joyfully make their voices heard.

But I have calmed and quieted my soul— like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

I long for Your deliverance, Adonai, and Your Torah is my delight.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked perishes.

The Torah of Adonai is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of Adonai is trustworthy, making the simple wise.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. And because of his joy, he goes out and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Adonai our Lord, how excellent is Your Name over all the earth! You set Your splendor above the heavens.

But thanks be to God, who keeps giving us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah!

How lovely are Your tabernacles, Adonai-Tzva’ot!

I praise You, for I am awesomely, wonderfully made! Wonderful are Your works— and my soul knows that very well.

And again it says, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

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.”

Out of a tight place I called on Adonai— Adonai answered me with a spacious place.Adonai is for me—I will not fear! What can man do to me?

Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for the sake of your progress and joy in the faith—

Let the lying lips be mute. For they speak arrogantly against the righteous, with pride and contempt.

So he said to them, “Go! Eat choice food, drink sweet drinks, and send portions to those who have nothing ready. For today is kadosh to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of Adonai is your strength.”

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.But let all who take refuge in You rejoice! Let them always shout for joy! You will shelter them and they exult— those who love Your Name.

I detest those who continue to watch worthless idols, but I trust in Adonai.

All the days of the afflicted are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

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.

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.

Up to now, you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.

You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

rejoicing in hope, enduring in distress, persisting in prayer,

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