But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.. Galatians 5:22 (ESV)

Joy

Romans 12:12 ESV / 354 helpful votes

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 252 helpful votes

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

James 1:2 ESV / 247 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 211 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 15:13 ESV / 194 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

John 16:24 ESV / 151 helpful votes

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

Romans 14:17 ESV / 105 helpful votes

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

Psalm 16:9 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.

John 16:22 ESV / 95 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Rejoice always,

James 1:2-4 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

1 Thessalonians 2:20 ESV / 72 helpful votes

For you are our glory and joy.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 67 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

2 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 66 helpful votes

I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.

Proverbs 10:28 ESV / 62 helpful votes

The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

Luke 15:10 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

1 John 1:4 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 49 helpful votes

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 47 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Colossians 1:11 ESV / 46 helpful votes

May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,

Psalm 4:7 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

Psalm 33:21 ESV / 44 helpful votes

For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Romans 5:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 41 helpful votes

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Again I Say Rejoice ~

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Romans 15:32 ESV / 40 helpful votes

So that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

2 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

Nehemiah 8:9-18 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law. Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.” And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law. …

Psalm 126:5 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!

John 16:33 ESV / 33 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Psalm 100:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes

A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

Psalm 71:23 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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

Psalm 28:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 1:24 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

Jude 1:24 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Ezra 6:22 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

John 17:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Luke 1:47 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

Matthew 2:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.

Acts 2:28 ESV / 23 helpful votes

You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

John 15:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Acts 13:52 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

Nehemiah 12:43 ESV / 21 helpful votes

And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.

Psalm 70:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”

Psalm 19:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Acts 16:25 ESV / 17 helpful votes

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

Jeremiah 33:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Psalm 126:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

Philippians 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—

Psalm 97:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …

Isaiah 29:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 104:34 ESV / 14 helpful votes

May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.

Philippians 1:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,

Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Proverbs 19:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Psalm 105:43 ESV / 13 helpful votes

So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

Psalm 100:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!

Psalm 30:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Philemon 1:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Zechariah 2:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord.

Isaiah 30:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Psalm 119:111 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Psalm 105:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

2 John 1:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Acts 20:22-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 8:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So there was much joy in that city.

Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 8:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Psalm 5:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.

Job 8:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

1 Chronicles 16:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Isaiah 12:1-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me. “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. …

Psalm 132:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.

Psalm 69:32 ESV / 10 helpful votes

When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

Psalm 42:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.

2 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

Acts 3:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And leaping up he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

Psalm 138:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And they shall sing of the ways of the Lord, for great is the glory of the Lord.

Psalm 51:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

Psalm 13:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

Job 22:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Hebrews 1:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment,

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Jeremiah 32:41 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

Ecclesiastes 3:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Proverbs 14:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Proverbs 13:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Psalm 21:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Jeremiah 31:1-40 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.” Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers. Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit. …

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 44:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.

Psalm 97:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!

Psalm 64:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult!

Psalm 51:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Psalm 43:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Psalm 35:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord, exulting in his salvation.

Psalm 30:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

That my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Psalm 14:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

Ezra 6:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

1 Thessalonians 2:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

2 Corinthians 7:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Acts 16:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.

Luke 1:46-56 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. …

Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

Habakkuk 3:16-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Jeremiah 31:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

Isaiah 52:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.

Psalm 149:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!

Psalm 32:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Psalm 16:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Psalm 2:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Nehemiah 8:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

2 Chronicles 30:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with all their might to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 29:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had prepared for the people, for the thing came about suddenly.

2 Chronicles 29:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.

2 Chronicles 15:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the Lord gave them rest all around.

2 Chronicles 15:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They swore an oath to the Lord with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns.

2 Chronicles 7:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

1 Chronicles 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And David and all Israel were rejoicing before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.

Hebrews 10:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

1 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,

Luke 15:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Luke 15:6-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

Luke 2:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.

Mark 11:8-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”

Isaiah 61:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.

Isaiah 35:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Proverbs 28:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.

Psalm 119:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!

Psalm 68:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!

Psalm 45:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.

Psalm 40:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”

Psalm 37:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.

Psalm 36:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

Psalm 32:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalm 16:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

Psalm 9:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

That I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.

Job 38:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 33:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

Job 22:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

2 Chronicles 30:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 15:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.

1 Chronicles 15:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

1 Chronicles 12:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

1 Samuel 18:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

1 Samuel 2:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. “There is none holy like the Lord; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God. Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. …

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

1 Corinthians 16:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men.

Romans 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Acts 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Recognizing Peter’s voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate.

Acts 11:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,

Acts 11:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

John 16:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.

Luke 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

Matthew 18:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

Jeremiah 33:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.

Isaiah 56:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

These I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

Isaiah 49:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.

Isaiah 35:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;

Isaiah 16:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken theLord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …

Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.

Psalm 149:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 110:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.

Psalm 89:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted.

Psalm 51:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 46:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

Psalm 35:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the Lord, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”

Esther 8:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.

Esther 8:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

2 Chronicles 30:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.

2 Chronicles 23:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword.

2 Chronicles 23:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.

1 Samuel 2:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Luke 1:67-79 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; …

Isaiah 35:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.