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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.
In destroying made of enemies and in hunger thou shalt laugh, and thou shalt not dread the beasts of [the] earth.
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.
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.
The rightfulnesses of the Lord be rightful, gladdening hearts; the com-mandment of the Lord is clear, en-lightening eyes.
The Lord is mine helper and my defender; and mine heart hoped in him, and I am helped. And my flesh flowered again; and of my will I shall acknowledge to him.
For ire is in his indignation; and life is in his will. Weeping shall dwell at eventide; and gladness at the morrowtide.
And Sarah said, The Lord hath made laughing to me, and whoever shall hear shall laugh with me.
Evermore joy ye;without ceasing pray ye;in all things do ye thankings. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus, in all you.
Thou hast turned my wailing into joy to me; thou hast rent my sack-cloth, and hast encompassed me with gladness.
Ye just [or rightwise] men, have fully joy [or full out joyeth] in the Lord; praising altogether becometh rightful [or right] men.
for as the sound of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughing of a fool. But also this is vanity.
My soul, why art thou sorry; and why troublest thou me? Hope thou in God, for yet I shall acknowledge to him; he is the health of my cheer, and my God.
Give thou to me the gladness of thine health; and confirm thou me with the principal spirit.
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.
All men that seek thee, make fully joy [or full out joy they], and be glad in thee; and they that love thine health, say ever[more], The Lord be magnified.
We were [ful] filled early with thy mercy; we made full out joy, and we delighted in all our days.
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.
Come ye, make ye full out joy to the Lord; heartily sing we to God, our health.Forty years I was offended to this generation; and I said, Ever[more] they err in heart. And these men knew not my ways;to whom I swore in mine ire, they shall not enter into my rest.Before-occupy we his face in acknowledging; and heartily sing we to him in psalms.
Light is risen to the rightful [or rightwise] man; and gladness to rightful men of heart.Just [or rightwise] men, be ye glad in the Lord; and acknowledge ye to the mind of his hallowing.
All earth, make ye heartily joy to God; sing ye, and make ye full out joy, and say ye psalm.
They that sow in tears; shall reap in full out joying.They going, went, and wept; sending their seeds. But they coming, shall come with full out joying; bearing their handfuls.
The song of degrees. Blessed be all men, that dread the Lord; that go in his ways.For thou shalt eat the travails of thine hands; thou art blessed, and it shall be well to thee.
They said, The people is blessed, that hath these things; blessed is the people, whose Lord is the God of it.
Abiding of just [or rightwise] men is gladness; but the hope of wicked men shall perish.
Mourning in the heart of a just [or rightwise] man shall make him meek; and he shall be made glad by a good word.
The light of just [or rightwise] men maketh glad; but the lantern of wicked men shall be quenched.
Laughing shall be meddled [or mingled] with sorrow; and mourning occupieth the last things of joy.
It is joy to a just [or rightwise] man to make doom; and it is dread to them that work wickedness.
God gave wisdom, and knowing, and gladness to a good man in his sight; but he gave torment, and superfluous busyness to a sinner, that he increase, and gather together, and give to him that pleaseth God; but also this is vanity, and vain busyness of soul.
And I knew that nothing was better to a man, but to be glad, and to do good works in his life.For why each man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his travail; this is the gift of God.
And I perceived that nothing is better, than that a man be glad in his work, and that this be his part; for who shall bring him, that he know things that shall come after him?
And to each man, to whom God gave riches, and chattel [or substance], and gave power to him to eat of those, and to use his part, and to be glad of his travail; this is the gift of God.
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.
Therefore go thou, just man, and eat thy bread in gladness, and drink thy wine with joy; for thy works please God.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
But ye shall have joy, and make full out joying till into without end, in these things which I make; for lo! I make Jerusalem full out joying, and the people thereof joy.And I shall make full out joying in Jerusalem, and I shall have joy in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of cry shall no more be heard therein.
Thy words be found, and I ate those [or them]; and thy word was made to me into joy, and into gladness of mine heart; for thy name, Lord God of hosts, is called to help on me.
Then a virgin shall be glad in a company, young men and eld together; and I shall turn the mourning of them into joy, and I shall comfort them, and I shall make them glad of their sorrow.
Thy Lord God is strong in the middle of thee, he shall save [thee]; he shall make joy on thee in gladness, he shall be still in thy loving, he shall make joy withoutforth on thee in praising.
Joy ye, and be ye glad, for your meed is plenteous in heavens; for so they have pursued also prophets that were before you.
But when ye fast, do not ye be made as hypocrites sorrowful, for they deface themselves, [or they put their faces out of kindly terms], to seem fasting to men; truly I say to you, they have received their meed.But when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face,that thou be not seen fasting to men, but to thy Father that is in huddles, and thy Father that seeth in privy [or in huddles], shall yield to thee.
And lo! they brought to him a man sick in palsy, lying in a bed. And Jesus saw the faith of them, and said to the man sick in palsy, Son, have thou trust; thy sins be forgiven to thee.
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 they went out soon from the burials [or the sepulchre], with dread, and great joy, running to tell to his disciples.
Blessed be ye, that now hunger, for ye shall be full-filled. Blessed be ye, that now weep, for ye shall laugh. [Blessed be ye, that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed be ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.]
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.
Truly, truly, I say to you, that ye shall mourn and weep, but the world shall have joy; and ye shall be sorrow-ful, but your sorrow shall turn into joy.
And therefore ye have now sorrow, but again I shall see you, and your heart shall have joy, and no man shall take from you your joy.
But now I come to thee, and I speak these things in the world, that they have my joy fulfilled in them-selves.
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt [full]-fill me in mirth with thy face.
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.And the law entered, that guilt should be plenteous; but where guilt was plenteous, grace was more plenteous [or abounded].That as sin reigned into death, so grace reign by rightwiseness into ever-lasting life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.And not this only, but also we glory in tribulations, witting that tribulation worketh patience,
For why the realm of God is not meat and drink, but rightwiseness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
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.
Much trust is to me with you, much glorying is to me for you. I am [full]-filled with comfort, I am plenteous [or I abound] in joy in all our tribulation.
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.
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.
And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus.
and be comforted in all virtue, by the might of his clearness, in all patience and long abiding with joy,
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.
and ye be made followers of us, and of the Lord, receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost;
desiring to see thee; having mind of thy tears, [or mindful of thy tears], that I be [ful] filled with joy.
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.
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;
And if any of you is sorrowful, [or heavy], pray he with patient soul, and say he a psalm.
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,
but commune ye with the passions of Christ, and have ye joy, that also ye be glad, and have joy in the revelation of his glory.
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;
Ye just [or rightwise] men, be glad, and make fully joy in the Lord; and all ye rightful of heart, have glory.
Israel be glad in him that made him; and the daughters of Zion make full out joy in their king.
A snare shall wrap a wicked man doing sin; and a just [or rightwise] man shall praise, and make joy.
Therefore I praised gladness, that no good was to a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and to be joyful; and that he should bear away with himself only this of his travail, in the days of his life, which God gave to him under the sun.
Thou multipliedest folk, thou magnifiedest not gladness; they shall be glad before thee, as they that be glad in harvest, as overcomers make full out joy, when they have taken a prey, when they part the spoils.
From henceforth, brethren, what-ever things be sooth, whatever things chaste, whatever things just, whatever things holy, whatever things able to be loved, [or amiable, or lovable], whatever things of good fame, if any virtue, if any praising of discipline, think ye these things,