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 furthermore the king of all earth commandeth to the servant.

Whom when ye have not seen, ye love; into whom also now ye not seeing, believe; but ye that believe shall have joy, and gladness that may not be told out, and ye shall be glorified,and have [or bring again] the end of your faith, the health of your souls.

But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,temperance, continence, chastity; against such things is no law.

for to joy with men that joy, for to weep with men that weep.

that I come to you in joy, by the will of God, and that I be refreshed with you.

I purchased thy witnessings by heritage without end; for those [or they] be the full [out] joying of mine heart.

These things I spake to you, that my joy be in you, and your joy be full-filled.

I delighted in the way of thy witnessings; as in all riches.

In a good day use thou goods, and before eschew thou an evil day; for God made so this day as that day, that a man find not just complainings against him.

as sorrowful, and evermore joying [or but evermore joying]; as having need, but making many men rich; as nothing having, and wielding all things.

Nevertheless do not ye [have] joy in this thing, that spirits be subject to you; but joy ye, that your names be written in heavens.

And I say to you, so joy shall be in heaven on one sinful man doing penance, more than on ninety and nine just, that have no need to [or of] penance.

All earth, make ye heartily joy to God; sing ye, and make ye full out joy, and say ye psalm.

Come ye, make ye full out joy to the Lord; heartily sing we to God, our health.

The word of Christ dwell in you plenteously, in all wisdom; and teach and admonish yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

All earth, make ye heartily joy to God; sing ye, and make ye full out joy, and say ye psalm.Sing ye to the Lord in an harp, in harp and in voice of psalm;in trumps beaten out with hammer, and in voice of a trump of horn. Heartily sing ye in the sight of the Lord, the King;

And I shall enter to the altar of God; to God, that gladdeth my youth. God, my God, I shall acknowledge to thee in an harp;

To victory, on the pressers [or wine presses]. The psalm of the sons of Korah. Lord of virtues, thy taber-nacles be greatly loved;For why one day in thine halls is better; than a thousand elsewhere. I choose to be abject, either an outcast, in the house of my God; more than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.For God loveth mercy and truth; the Lord shall give grace and glory. He shall not deprive them from goods, that go in innocence;Lord of virtues, blessed is the man, that hopeth in thee.my soul coveteth, and faileth into the porches of the Lord. Mine heart, and my flesh; full out joyed into quick God [or God alive].

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt [full-]fill me with gladness with thy cheer; delight-ings be in thy right half unto the end.

Joy ye in the Lord evermore; again I say, joy ye.

For ire is in his indignation; and life is in his will. Weeping shall dwell at eventide; and gladness at the morrowtide.

But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,

The Lord magnified to do with us; we be made glad.

And God of hope full-fill you in all joy and peace in believing, that ye increase [or abound] in hope and virtue of the Holy Ghost.

This is the day which the Lord made; make we full out joy, and be we glad therein.

Evermore joy ye;

Just [or rightwise] men, be ye glad in the Lord; and acknowledge ye to the mind of his hallowing.

And all that hope in thee, be they glad; they shall make full out joy [into] without end, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all that love thy name shall have glory in thee;

I joying shall have joy in the Lord, and my soul shall make full out joying in my God. For he hath clothed me with [the] clothes of health, and he hath compassed me with [the] clothes of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], as a spouse made fair with a crown, and as a spousess adorned with her brooches.

A joyful heart maketh glad the face; the spirit is cast down in the mourning of soul.

Forsooth I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God; hoped in the mercy of God without end, and into the world of world.I shall acknowledge to thee into the world, for thou hast done mercy to me; and I shall abide thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.

beholding into the maker of faith, and the perfect ender, Jesus; which when joy was purposed to him, he suffered the cross, and despised confusion, and sitteth on the right half of the seat of God.

To David, when he changed his mouth, or his word, before Abimelech, and he drove out David, and he went forth. [The psalm of David, when he changed his cheer before Abimelech, and he let him go, and he went away.] I shall bless the Lord in all time; ever[more] his praising be in my mouth.

A psalm to acknowledge. All earth, sing ye heartily to God;serve ye the Lord in gladness. Enter ye in his sight in full out joying.

For why the realm of God is not meat and drink, but rightwiseness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

For thou shalt give him into bless-ing into the world of world; thou shalt make him glad in joy with thy cheer.

Ye shall draw waters with joy of the wells of the saviour.

A joyful soul maketh liking age; a sorrowful spirit maketh dry bones.

And just [or rightwise] men eat, and make they fully joy [or full out glad they] in the sight of God; and delight they in gladness.

They that sow in tears; shall reap in full out joying.

Alleluia. Sing ye to the Lord a new song; his praising be in the church of saints.

Joy ye, and be ye glad, for your meed is plenteous in heavens; for so they have pursued also prophets that were before you.

For this thing mine heart was glad, and my tongue joyed fully; further-more and my flesh shall rest in hope.

For ye shall go out in gladness, and ye shall be led forth in peace; mountains and little hills shall sing praising before you, and all the trees of the country shall make joy with hands.

For thou, Lord, hast delighted me in the works of thy making; and I shall make full out joy in the works of thine hands.

And doing good fail we not; for in his time we shall reap, not failing.

Thou hast made ready a board in my sight; against them that trouble me. Thou hast made fat mine head with oil; and my cup, that filleth greatly, is full clear.

My speech be merry or mirth to him; forsooth I shall delight in the Lord.

Savour [or Understand] ye those things that be above, not those that be on the earth.

blessed is the people that know a hearty song. Lord, they shall go in the light of thy cheer;

Acknowledging and great doing be before him; strength and joy be in the place of him.

Lord, the eyes of all beasts hope in thee; and thou givest the meat of them in covenable time.Thou openest thine hand; and thou [ful] fillest each beast with blessing.

My brethren, deem ye all joy, when ye fall into diverse temptations,for the wrath of man worketh not the rightwiseness of God.For which thing cast ye away all uncleanness, and plenty of malice, and in mildness, receive ye the word that is planted, that may save your souls.But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.For if any man is an hearer of the word, and not a doer, this shall be likened to a man that beholdeth the cheer of his birth in a mirror;for he beheld himself, and went away, and anon he forgot which [or what] he was.But he that beholdeth into the law of perfect freedom, and dwelleth in it, and is not made a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, this shall be blessed in his deed.And if any man guesseth himself to be religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, the religion of him is vain.A clean religion, and unwemmed with God and the Father, is this, to visit fatherless and motherless children, and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself undefouled from this world.witting that the proving of your faith worketh patience;

His lord said to him, Well be thou, good servant and faithful; for on few things thou hast been true [or faithful], I shall ordain thee on many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

And the Lord shall yield to me by my rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; and by the cleanness of mine hands in the sight of his eyes.

I shall be glad on thy speeches; as he that findeth many spoils.

my soul, why art thou sorry, and why troublest thou me? Hope thou in God, for yet I shall acknowledge to him; that is the health of my cheer, and my God.

Thou Highest, I shall be glad, and I shall be fully joyful [or full out joy] in thee; I shall sing to thy name.

Alleluia. Lord, I shall acknowledge to thee in all mine heart; in the council, and congregation of just men.

The spirit of a man sustaineth his feebleness; but who may sustain a spirit light to be wroth?

The Lord is [the] part of mine heritage, and of my passion; thou art, that shall restore mine heritage to me.

Lord, turn thou our captivity; as a strand [or stream] in the south.

By whom we have nigh going to [or access], by faith into this grace, in which we stand, and have glory in the hope of the glory of God’s children.

Ye just [or rightwise] men, be glad, and make fully joy in the Lord; and all ye rightful of heart, have glory.

Lead me forth in the path of thy behests; for I would or delight in it.

The song of the psalm of David. Mine heart is ready, God, mine heart is ready; I shall sing, and I shall say psalm in my glory.

Alleluia. Acknowledge ye to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is without end.

that I should set comfort to the mourners of Zion, and that I should give to them a crown for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, a mantle of praising for the spirit of wailing. And strong men of rightfulness [or rightwiseness] shall be called therein, the planting of the Lord, for to glorify.

My lips shall make fully joy [or full out joy], when I shall sing to thee; and my soul, which thou again-boughtest.

Who shall give from Zion health to Israel? When the Lord hath turned away the captivity of his people; Jacob shall fully be joyful or shall full out joy, and Israel shall be glad.

For our heart shall be glad in him; and we shall have hope in his holy name.

Henceforward, my brethren, have ye joy in the Lord. To write to you the same things, to me it is not slow, and to you it is necessary.

Alleluia. Acknowledge ye to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is without end.All folks encompassed me; and in the name of the Lord it befelled, for I am avenged on them.They compassing encompassed me; and in the name of the Lord, for I am avenged on them.They encompassed me as bees, and they burnt out as fire among thorns; and in the name of the Lord, for I am avenged on them.I was hurled, and turned upside-down, that I should fall down; and the Lord took me up.The Lord is my strength, and my praising; and he is made to me into health.The voice of full out joying and of health; be in the tabernacles of just [or rightwise] men. The right hand of the Lord hath done virtue,the right hand of the Lord en-hanced me; the right hand of the Lord hath done virtue.I shall not die, but I shall live; and I shall tell the works of the Lord.The Lord chastising hath chastised me; and he gave not me to death.Open ye to me the gates of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and I shall enter by those [or them], and I shall acknowledge to the Lord;Israel say now, for he is good; for his mercy is without end.

Before sing ye to the Lord in acknowledging; say ye psalm to our God in an harp.

and again-bought of the Lord; and they shall be converted, and shall come into Zion with praising; and everlasting gladness shall be on the heads of them; they shall have joy and gladness, and sorrow and wailing shall flee away.

And the people was glad, when they promised avows [or vows] by their free will, for with all the heart they offered those [or them] to the Lord. But also king David was glad with great joy,

They shall speak of the magnifi-cence of the glory of thine holiness; and they shall tell of all thy marvels.

The voice of full out joying and of health; be in the tabernacles of just [or rightwise] men. The right hand of the Lord hath done virtue,

Delight thou in the Lord; and he shall give to thee the askings of thine heart.

All men that seek thee, be fully joyful [or full out joy], and be glad in thee; and say they, that love thine health, The Lord be magnified ever-[more].

And they shall say in that day, Lo! this is our God; we abided him, and he shall save us; this is the Lord; we suffered him, and we shall make full out joy, and shall be glad in his health.

Saints shall make full out joy in glory; they shall be glad in their beds.

To the saints that be in the land of him; he made wonderful all my wills in them.

and I am ever with thee. Thou heldest my right hand,and in thy will thou leddest me forth; and with glory thou tookest me up.

The song of degrees. When the Lord turned the captivity of Zion; we were made as comforted.Then our mouth was filled with joy; and our tongue with full out joying. Then they shall say among heathen men; The Lord magnified to do with them.

Therefore by him offer we a sacrifice of praising evermore to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips acknowledging to his name.

But my soul shall fully have joy in the Lord; and shall delight on his health.

And David said to the princes of deacons [or Levites], that they should ordain of their brethren singers in organs of musics, that is, in gitterns, and harps, and cymbals; that the sound of gladness should sound on high.

If I feeled not meekly; but [I] en-hanced my soul. As a child weaned on his mother; so yielding be in my soul.

Lord, I coveted thine health; and thy law is my thinking.

Abiding of just [or rightwise] men is gladness; but the hope of wicked men shall perish.

The rightfulnesses of the Lord be rightful, gladdening hearts; the com-mandment of the Lord is clear, en-lightening eyes.

Give thou to me the gladness of thine health; and confirm thou me with the principal spirit.

The kingdom of heavens is like to treasure hid in a field, which a man that findeth, hideth; and for joy of it he goeth, and selleth all things that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Of the mouth of young children, not speaking and sucking milk, thou hast made perfect praising, for thine enemies; that thou destroy the enemy and the avenger.

But do we thankings to God, that gave to us victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.

my soul coveteth, and faileth into the porches of the Lord. Mine heart, and my flesh; full out joyed into quick God [or God alive].

I shall acknowledge to thee, for thou art magnified dreadfully; thy works be wonderful, and my soul shall know that full much.

And again he saith, Ye heathen men, be ye glad [or joy] with his people.

Lo! God is my saviour, I shall do faithfully, and I shall not dread. For why the Lord is my strength and my praising, and he is made to me into health.

Out Of tribulation I inwardly called the Lord; and the Lord heard me in largeness.The Lord is an helper to me; I shall not dread what man shall do to me.

And I trusting this thing, know that I shall dwell, and perfectly dwell to all you, to your profit and joy of faith,

Lord, the multitude of thy sweet-ness is full great; which thou hast hid to men dreading thee. Thou hast made a perfect thing to them that hope in thee; in the sight of the sons of men.

And he said to them, Go ye, and eat ye fat things, and drink ye wine made sweet with honey, and send ye parts to them, that made not ready to themselves, for it is an holy day of the Lord; do not ye be sorry, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

And all that hope in thee, be they glad; they shall make full out joy [into] without end, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all that love thy name shall have glory in thee;for thou shalt bless the just [or right-wise] man. Lord, thou hast crowned us, as with a shield of thy good will.

I shall have fully joy, and shall be glad in thy mercy. For thou beheldest my meekness; thou savedest my life from needs.

All the days of a poor man be evil; a secure soul is a continual feast.

Lo! God is my saviour, I shall do faithfully, and I shall not dread. For why the Lord is my strength and my praising, and he is made to me into health.Ye shall draw waters with joy of the wells of the saviour.

And now they that be again-bought of the Lord shall turn again, and shall come praising into Zion, and everlasting gladness on the heads of them; they shall hold joy and gladness, and sorrow and wailing shall flee away.

Till now ye asked nothing in my name; ask ye, and ye shall take, that your joy be full.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt [full]-fill me in mirth with thy face.

joying in hope, patient in tribulation, busy in prayer,

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