107 Bible verses about Smiling

Choosing to smile authentically, and even bringing a smile to someone else's face, can be a truly good thing, when the time and place are right. It's all about seeing a smile as something positive, a way to lift your own spirits and maybe even help someone else along the way.

Of course, too much of anything isn't good. There's a sweet spot between being overly serious and plastering on a fake smile. It's a balance where wisdom and joy, seriousness and a genuine smile can exist together beautifully. Everything has its time and place.

Laughter is an expression of the freedom Christ gave us through his loving sacrifice. And a heartfelt smile can be incredibly healing, especially for a hurting heart. Smiling through pain and rejoicing in your Creator – that’s what God wants for you, always.

I don't know what you're going through right now, but I want to encourage you to dry your tears, lift your head, and smile again. Because in Jesus, you have so much to be joyful about.

Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.

You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.

Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.

The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

Have joy at all times.Keep on with your prayers.In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

Be glad in the Lord, O doers of righteousness; for praise is beautiful for the upright.

Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.

So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.

But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.

Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.

In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.

For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.

Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.

Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.

Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

A Song of the going up. Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.

Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.

He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his workbecause that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.

Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.

Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.

The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

And they went away quickly, with fear and great joy, to give his disciples the news.

My spirit is glad in God my Saviour.

Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.

Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.

You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.

And the disciples were full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.

Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

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

Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;

My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

And in all my prayers for you all, making my request with joy,

And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.

For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.

And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

Have joy at all times.

Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.

To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.

And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.

Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

Let the Lord be praised. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

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