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.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

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.”

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

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.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Always rejoice.Pray without ceasing.In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Messiah Yeshua toward you.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.Be glad in the LORD, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways.For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in the LORD is blessed.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

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.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

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].

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.”

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.

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.

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.

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Hosts.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

The LORD, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Yeshua, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

“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.’

They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

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.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

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.The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Yeshua the Messiah our Lord.Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

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.

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

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.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Messiah Yeshua.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

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.

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

Always rejoice.

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

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.

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.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

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,

But because you are partakers of Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

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.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

The LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

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