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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.
You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”
The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
Rejoice at all times.Pray without ceasing.Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”
Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones, and praise His holy name.
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises!
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in His ways!For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.
The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God.
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
So the redeemed of the Lord will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
So the redeemed of the Lord will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.
But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O Lord God of Hosts.
Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
The Lord your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master!’
So they hurried away from the tomb in fear and great joy, and ran to tell His disciples.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.
But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.
Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.