VERSES ABOUT JOY

Think about it: the joy of the Lord doesn't just fill you with strength, it brings us all together. It's a joy that's not meant to be kept to yourself; it needs to be shared. Just like the Israelites were instructed to celebrate and share what they had with each other, you can spread the joy of the Lord with everyone you know.

This joy challenges you to love your neighbor and share the Gospel. When your heart is joyful in God, you are strong and empowered to spread that joy throughout your community. It's a lasting joy, something no one can take away.

Psalm 98:4-6 says, "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn— shout for joy before the Lord, the King." You can find so many verses like this that talk about the joy of our God.

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

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.

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

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.

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.

The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.

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:For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

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

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

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

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

Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

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;

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

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;

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.

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

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.

May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

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

Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.

And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.

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

Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.

Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.

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.

Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.

Honour and glory are before him: strength and joy are in his holy place.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

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

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

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.

So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.

Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.

Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.

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

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

Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.

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.

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

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

Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

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.

My spirit is glad in God my Saviour.

Let the heavens have joy and let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, The Lord is King.

Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with 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 the Lord be great.

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.

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

I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.

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

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

Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

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.

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

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.

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

For in him our hearts have joy; in his holy name is our hope.

And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.

To the chief music-maker. A Song. A Psalm. Send up a glad cry to God, all the earth:

So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.

Make songs to the Lord, blessing his name; give the good news of his salvation day by day.Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples.

So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

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

Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

And he took them into his house and gave them food, and he was full of joy, having faith in God with all his family.

And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries:

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.

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.

My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

Her priests will be clothed with salvation; and her saints will give cries of joy.

Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.

Make a new song to him; playing expertly with a loud noise.

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.

And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.

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

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.

I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.

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.

You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. Selah.

For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.

O make a new song to the Lord; let all the earth make melody to the Lord.

Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.

To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy.

And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.

And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.

The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.

Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.

And when he had said this, he let them see his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

Not that we have authority over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for it is faith which is your support.

Let there be joy in the mountain of Zion, and let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your wise decisions.

Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;

There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

Let them make offerings of praise, giving news of his works with cries of joy.

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.

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

Their sayings will be full of the memory of all your mercy, and they will make songs of your righteousness.

Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite. My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise.For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

And they gave him worship and went back to Jerusalem with great joy.And they were in the Temple at all times, giving praise to God.

But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

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.

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.

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.

But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;

What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Let the Lord be praised. Make a new song to the Lord, let his praise be in the meeting of his saints.

Let them give glory to him in the meeting of the people, and praise among the chiefs.

Of David. I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods.I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.

If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.

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.

While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

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 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;

O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.Let your voice be sounded in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.

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