84 Bible Verses about Happiness Psalm 37:4 ESV / 291 helpful votes Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Ecclesiastes 3:12 ESV / 131 helpful votes I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; Philippians 4:4 ESV / 95 helpful votes Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 89 helpful votes “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.” Proverbs 3:13-18 ESV / 69 helpful votes Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs 14:13 ESV / 62 helpful votes Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief. Philippians 4:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Isaiah 12:3 ESV / 51 helpful votes With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Ecclesiastes 3:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is Gods gift to man. 1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 41 helpful votes But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, Job 5:17-27 ESV / 34 helpful votes “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal. He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. Psalm 37:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. 1 Peter 4:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. Psalm 40:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” 2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 27 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. Romans 5:2 ESV / 27 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. Ecclesiastes 3:22 ESV / 23 helpful votes So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him? Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor. Matthew 5:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 1 John 3:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Matthew 5:4-12 ESV / 18 helpful votes “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Psalm 128:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. Luke 16:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. Matthew 5:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. 2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. Matthew 5:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes But rejoice insofar as you share Christs sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. Psalm 37:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Matthew 5:3-12 ESV / 13 helpful votes “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Proverbs 28:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity. Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord. Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 ESV / 12 helpful votes There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 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 17:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes From men by your hand, O Lord, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants. 2 Corinthians 1:15-18 ESV / 11 helpful votes Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace. I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea. Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time? As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. Psalm 146:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, James 4:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. John 1:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Job 1:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. Esther 5:9-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the kings gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh. And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king. Job 20:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes That the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment? Genesis 12:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Psalm 144:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord! Psalm 128:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! Psalm 52:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes “See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!” Psalm 37:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! Psalm 36:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; 2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? Luke 12:16-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ Matthew 9:9-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he? Amos 6:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes “Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes! Proverbs 5:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes She does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. Psalm 73:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, Job 15:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. Genesis 2:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. John 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. Habakkuk 1:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich. Habakkuk 1:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad. Isaiah 22:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes And behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” Ecclesiastes 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. Psalm 133:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! Psalm 84:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. Psalm 73:17-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end. Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms. Psalm 37:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree. Job 21:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. Numbers 11:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague. Genesis 1:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. Acts 12:21-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last. Luke 2:10 ESV / 4 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. Luke 2:1-52 ESV / 4 helpful votes In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. Daniel 5:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. Jeremiah 25:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Jeremiah 25:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp. Isaiah 5:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands. Psalm 73:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms. Psalm 73:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Psalm 63:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, Psalm 16:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. Job 21:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. Helpful Not Helpful Esther 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the kings gate.”
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