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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."
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
Let the word of Messiah dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!Sing praises to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.With shofars and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of Hosts!For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. 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 a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.LORD of Hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.My soul longs, and even faints for the courts 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. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD! My soul will 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 a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your holy ones.
looking to Yeshua, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Shout for joy to the LORD, all you lands!Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the holy ones.
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how 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 will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.But he who looks into the perfect Torah of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Oh that the salvation [yeshuat] of Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.All the nations surrounded me, but in the LORD’s name I cut them off.They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the LORD’s name I indeed cut them off.They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the LORD’s name I cut them off.You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the LORD helped me.The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation [yeshu`ah].The voice of rejoicing and salvation [yeshu`ah] 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 will not die, but live, and declare the LORD’s works.The LORD has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to the LORD.Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
Then the LORD’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation [yeshu`ah] 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 such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”
It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
When the LORD brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation [yeshu`ah].”
Out of my distress, I called on the LORD. The LORD answered me with freedom.The LORD is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked 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, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.For you will bless the righteous. LORD, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation [yeshu`ah].”Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation [yeshu`ah].
Those ransomed by the LORD will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’