37 Bible Verses about Happiness

Blessed is the man reverencing God. He who hardens his heart will fall into trouble.

How blessed are the people who are so situated. How blessed are the people whose God is Jehovah!

Where there is no vision the people perish. The one who obeys the law is happy.

He who despises his neighbor sins. He who has mercy on the poor is happy.

He who handles a matter wisely will find good. Trust in Jehovah and be happy.

Blessed is the person whom God corrects. Do not despise discipline from the Almighty.

As you know, those who have endured are called blessed. You have heard of the patience (perseverance) (endurance) of Job, and have seen the outcome Jehovah provided, how he was very tender with his affection and mercy. (Psalm 103:8)

Jehovah, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

Even if you suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. Do not fear! Do not be troubled (distressed) (intimidated)!

Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.

While the meat was still in their mouths, before they had even had a chance to chew it, Jehovah became angry with the people and struck them with a severe plague.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction. How are they destroyed, suddenly! They are utterly consumed with terrors. It is like waking up from a dream, O Jehovah. When you awake you will despise everything they represent.

I will take from them the sounds of joy and happiness, the sounds of brides and grooms, the sound of mills, and the light of lamps. This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.'

A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.

Abraham said: Remember, my son, in your lifetime you were given good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. Now he is enjoying himself while you are in torment.

He spoke an illustration to them: The land of a rich man produced well. He reasoned to himself, what will I do? I have nowhere to store my fruits? He said: I would pull down my barns and build larger barns. I will store all my grain and goods there. read more.
I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.' But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil. Then he passed away, and lo, he was no more. I searched for him, but he could not be found.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.

Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?

I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy.

Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?

Instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

He offers sacrifices and burns incense to his fishing net. For it is through this their catch is great and the food is plentiful.

At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they do not pay attention to what Jehovah is doing or respect what his hands have done.

They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

Abraham said: Remember, my son, in your lifetime you were given good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. Now he is enjoying himself while you are in torment.

With your power (by your hand) rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.

They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to the grave.

Here is the man who did not make God his strength (refuge) (stronghold). He trusted in the abundance of his riches. He strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and become mighty in power?

I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Surrender to Jehovah and wait patiently for him. Do not be preoccupied with an evildoer who succeeds in his way when he carries out his schemes.

With your power (by your hand) rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.

Trust Jehovah and do good things. Live in the land, and practice being faithful. Be happy with Jehovah and he will provide you with the desires of your heart.

Come, each one cries, let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.

How horrible it will be for those who get up early in the morning to look for a drink and who sit up late at night until they are drunk from wine.

Those who are at ease in Zion and are secure in the mountain of Samaria will have trouble. You are the notable men of the foremost nations to whom the house of Israel comes!

Woe to you who are full now! For you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! You will mourn and weep.

I understood their end when I went into the sanctuary of God. Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction. How are they destroyed, suddenly! They are utterly consumed with terrors. read more.
It is like waking up from a dream, O Jehovah. When you awake you will despise everything they represent.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with rejoicing. Consider goodness. This also is vanity.

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

Dressed in royal apparel, Herod delivered a public address to the people on a special day. The people shouted: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.

In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Then on that day Haman went out full of joy and glad in heart. When he saw Mordecai in the king's gate and he did not get to his feet or give any sign of fear before him, Haman was full of wrath against Mordecai. But controlling himself, he went to his house; and he sent for his friends and Zeresh, his wife. He gave them an account of the glories of his wealth. The number of children he had. He recalled the ways in which he had been honored by the king. How the king put him over the captains and servants of the king.

He brings them all up with the hook. He gathers them away in his net. He gladly gathers them and rejoices.

Even in laughter the heart has pain; and joy may end in grief.

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

While the meat was still in their mouths, before they had even had a chance to chew it, Jehovah became angry with the people and struck them with a severe plague.

The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

But all this is nothing to me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's gate.

([Psalm of David]) Do not be bothered by evildoers. Do not envy those who do wicked things.

King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine with them.

For the commandment is a lamp. The law is light. Reproofs for instruction are the way of life.