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.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.

You will make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forever.

Then he said to them, “Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge.”

For there is a moment in his anger; there is a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning comes rejoicing.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Yahweh has done great things for us; we are glad.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self control. Against such things there is no law.

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

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, you righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright of heart.

Rejoice always,pray constantly,give thanks in everything; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

Serve Yahweh with joy; come into his presence with exultation.

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

whom, although you have not seen, you love; in whom now you believe, although you do not see him, and you rejoice greatly with joy inexpressible and full of glory,obtaining the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Inhabitant of Zion, shout out and sing for joy, for the holy one of Israel is great in your midst.”

This is the day Yahweh has worked; let us rejoice and be glad in him.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and he will give to you the requests of your heart.

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

Each one should give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns himself with a head wrap like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewelry.

You have put gladness in my heart more than when their grain and their wine abound.

Though the fig tree does not blossom, nor there be fruit on the vines; the yield of the olive tree fails, and the cultivated fields do not yield food; the flock is cut off from the animal pen, and there is no cattle in the stalls,Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh; I will exult in the God of my salvation.

Consider it all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials,for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls.But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at his own face in a mirror,for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed in what he does.If anyone thinks he is religious, although he does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

When my troubled thoughts were many within me, your consolations cheered my soul.

through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.Now the law came in as a side issue, in order that the trespass could increase, but where sin increased, grace was present in greater abundance,so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.And not only this, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces patient endurance,

For you shall go out in joy, and you shall be led in peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing and all the trees of the field shall clap hands.

Exult in Yahweh, O you righteous, for praise is fitting for the upright.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him.

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you—not as the world gives, I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing the praise of your name, O Most High.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me.

Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name.

And every day, devoting themselves to meeting with one purpose in the temple courts and breaking bread from house to house, they were eating their food with joy and simplicity of heart,praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding every day to the total of those who were being saved.

always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy,

My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you, and my soul, which you have redeemed.

Then my soul will rejoice in Yahweh; it will rejoice in his salvation.

Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth in rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.

But let all who take shelter in you rejoice. Let them ever sing for joy, because you spread protection over them; And let those who love your name exult in you.

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing praise in your heart to the Lord,and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father,

I have taken as my own your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.

Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise up.

For you set on him blessings forever. You make him glad with the joy of your presence.

The hope of the righteous is gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.

Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are inscribed in heaven.”

Why are you in despair, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, for the salvation of his presence.

so that, coming to you with joy by the will of God, I may rest with you.

Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.

Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing.

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and rejoice with all of you.And in the same way also you rejoice and rejoice with me.

Blessed are the people who have it thus. Blessed are the people whose God is Yahweh.

But the righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For their fathers used to do the same things to the prophets.

to give for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory.

Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me as jubilation, even as the joy of my heart, for your name is called on me, O Yahweh God of hosts.

Deceit is in the heart of those who plan evil, but to those who plan peace, there is joy.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for these people.”

and my spirit has rejoiced greatly in God my Savior,

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, and let them tell the peoples, “Yahweh reigns!”

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice. Let the sea with its fullness roar.Let the field with all that is in it exult. Then all the trees of the forests will sing for joy

Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, “Yahweh is great!” —those who love your salvation.

Yahweh your God is in your midst; a mighty warrior who saves. He shall rejoice over you with joy; he renews you in his love; he will exult over you with singing.

And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves.

I am rejoicing over your word, like one who finds great spoil.

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

In transgression, an evil man is a snare, but the righteous will sing and rejoice.

Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds—his name is Yah— and rejoice before him.

But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever over what I am about to create! For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing, and her people as a source of joy.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, but is a safeguard for you.

For you, O Yahweh, have made me glad by your work; by the deeds of your hands I sing for joy.

For in him our heart rejoices because in his holy name we trust.

Then Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in Yahweh, my strength is exalted in Yahweh; I grin over my enemies, for I rejoice over your salvation.

Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.

And you will draw water from the wells of salvation in joy.

Sing to Yahweh; bless his name. Announce his salvation from day to day.Tell his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.

So then, my beloved and greatly desired brothers, my joy and crown, thus stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.

My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Be glad, O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for your righteousness, and he has poured down for you rainwater, the autumn and spring rains, as before.

A heart of gladness will make good countenance, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my surpassing joy, and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God.

And he brought them up into his house and set a meal before them, and rejoiced greatly that he had believed in God with his whole household.

And so he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.

Great is my confidence toward you; great is my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

You have made the nation numerous; you have not made the joy great. They rejoice in your presence as with joy at the harvest, as they rejoice when they divide plunder.

My soul will be satisfied as with the best and richest food, and with joyful lips my mouth will praise.When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in the night watches.Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you from among your companions with festive oil.

I will also clothe its priests with salvation, and its faithful will shout exuberantly for joy.

Sing for joy, heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, depths of the earth! Break forth, mountains, in rejoicing, forest and every tree in it, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and he will show his glory in Israel!

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with jubilant shout.

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.

And not only this, but also we are boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Let Israel be glad in its maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their king.

And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with rejoicing. And everlasting joy shall be on their head; joy and gladness shall overtake them, and sorrow and sighing shall flee.

In the way of your testimonies I have rejoiced as I would over all riches.

“Then the young woman will rejoice in the dancing in a ring, and the young men and the old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow.

North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name.

And one will say, on that day, “Look! This is our God! We have waited for him and he saved us! This is Yahweh; we waited for him! Let us be glad, and let us rejoice in his salvation.”

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, because you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations on the earth. Selah

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and do not put confidence in the flesh,

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I created for my glory, whom I formed, indeed whom I made.”

Sing to Yahweh a new song; sing to Yahweh, all the earth.

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. Yes, my body will dwell in safety,

All you peoples, clap your hands. Shout to God with a voice of rejoicing.

And you will say on that day, “I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose,

so that I may tell of all your praises. In the gates of the daughter of Zion let me rejoice in your salvation.

Yah is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him—the God of my father—and I will exalt him.

Let your mercies come to me, that I may live, for your law is my delight.

And when he had said this, he showed his hands and his side to them. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

Let Mount Zion rejoice; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

And because I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,

And you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all your endeavors, you and your family in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

and let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his works with rejoicing.

So the redeemed ones of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. Joy and gladness shall appear; sorrow and sighing shall flee away!

Yahweh is king! Let the earth rejoice; let many coastlands be glad.

They will utter the renown of your abundant goodness, and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness.

Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh; I will exult in the God of my salvation.

Finally, become strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength.

I will sing forever of Yahweh’s acts of loyal love. From generation to generation I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.You yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; you scattered your enemies with your strong arm.The heavens are yours, the earth yours as well, the world with its fullness, because you founded them.North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name.You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high.Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness come before your face.Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise up.For you are the glory of their strength, and by your favor our horn rises up,because our shield belongs to Yahweh, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, “I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people.For I say, “Forever your loyal love is built up. The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them.”

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.

Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our king, sing praises.For God is king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.And they were continually in the temple courts praising God.

And yet he did not leave himself without witness by doing good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with gladness.”

Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.

Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, my salvation and my God.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and who reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of him through us in every place.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.My soul will be satisfied as with the best and richest food, and with joyful lips my mouth will praise.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Praise Yah. Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful.

and let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

I give you thanks with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise.I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have magnified your word according to all your name.

Unless your law had been my delight, then I would have perished in my misery.

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You were faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge over many things. Enter into the joy of your master!’

I will praise Yahweh while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I am still alive.

And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing praise in your heart to the Lord,and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father,

Joy belongs to a man with answers in his mouth, and a word in its time, how good it is!

But to the degree that you share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that also at the revelation of his glory you may rejoice and be glad.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

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