13 Bible Verses about Merriness

A joyful heart makes a beautiful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is abated. The heart of him that has understanding seeks wisdom, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. All the days of the poor are difficult, but he that is of a good heart has a continual feast.

Thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob's tents and have mercy on his dwelling places and the city shall be built upon her own hill, and the temple according to her judgment shall stand. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of people that live in joy: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be decreased; I will multiply them, and they shall not be cut down.

Is anyone among you afflicted? let them pray. Is anyone happy? let them sing.

And they went out into the fields and gathered their vineyards and trod the grapes and made merry and went into the house of their gods and ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.

And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a banquet in his house like the banquet of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken; therefore, she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

And those that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry and shall send gifts one to another because these two prophets tormented those that dwelt on the earth.

and bring here the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs that served in the presence of Ahasuerus, the king,

A joyful heart shall do good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Go, eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a joyful heart that thy works might be acceptable unto God.

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what does it advantage me, if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

A joyful heart makes a beautiful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is abated.

and wine that makes glad the heart of man, making his face to shine with oil and bread which sustains man's heart.