For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.

Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

But I will ever be full of joy, making songs of praise to the God of Jacob.

For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

And in all my prayers for you all, making my request with joy,

And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind;

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.

So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:

So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.

And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy;

If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.

Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

For though I am not present in the flesh, still I am with you in the spirit, seeing with joy your order, and your unchanging faith in Christ.

And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

For you are our glory and our joy.

For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;

Have joy at all times.

Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.

Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

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.

You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.

For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.

And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.

He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;

Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

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.

For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

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

It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

Having much to say to you, it is not my purpose to put it all down with paper and ink: but I am hoping to come to you, and to have talk with you face to face, so that your joy may be full.

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

For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.

And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.

And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people:

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.