16 Bible Verses about Gladness

Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

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 more than on the heads of those who are with you.

So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day, making melody to the Lord with loud instruments.

And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things.

All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.

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

With joy and rapture will they come; they will go into the king's house.

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,

Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

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.

Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.

Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

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.

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