37 Bible Verses about Happiness

Happy the man fearing always: and he hardening his heart shall fall into evil

Happy the people thus and thus to him: happy the people Jehovah his God.

In no vision the people shall be unruly: and he watching the law, happy is he.

He despising to his neighbor, sins: and he compassionating the poor, he is happy.

He understanding in the word shall find good: and he trusting in Jehovah, he being happy.

Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:

Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

Happy the man whom thou shalt chastise, O Jah: and thou wilt teach him from thy laws.

If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.

But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

The voice of fears in his ears: in peace he destroying shall come upon him.

And the flesh yet between their teeth, before it shall be withdrawn and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah will smite upon them an exceeding great blow.

Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins. How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction. As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image.

And I destroyed from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of the two millstones and the light of the lamp. All this land was for a waste, for a desolation, and these nations served the king of Babel seventy years.

A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened:

But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

And he spake a parable to them, saying, The farm of a certain rich man bore well: And he calculated in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not where I shall collect together my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my stores, and build greater; and there will I collect all my produce and my good things. read more.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened. And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

I saw the unjust one making afraid, and spreading abroad as a green native tree. And he shall pass away, and behold, he is not: and I shall seek him and he was not found.

And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes.

Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure?

For I was envious at the foolish; I shall see the peace of the unjust

Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?

And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

For this he will sacrifice to his net and burn incense to his fish-net; for by them his portion fat and his food. growing fat

And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not

They will lift up with the drum and harp, and they will rejoice at the voice of the pipe.

But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.

Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades.

Behold, the man will not set God his strength, and he will trust in the multitude of his riches he will be strengthened in his mischief.

Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power.

I saw the unjust one making afraid, and spreading abroad as a green native tree.

Be silent to Jehovah and wait for him: thou shalt not be angry at him prospering his way, at the man doing wickednesses.

From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.

Trust in Jehovah and do good; dwell in the land and be fed with faithfulness. And delight thyself upon Jehovah, and he shall give to thee the petitions of thy heart

Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.

Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them.

Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came.

Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.

Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state. Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins. How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction. read more.
As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image.

I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.

For as the voice of thorns under the pot, so the laughter of the foolish one. Also this is vanity.

And upon a fixed day, Herod, having put on royal apparel, and having sat upon the judgment seat, harangued them. And the people called aloud, The voice of God, and not of man. And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.

And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

And Haman went forth in that day being glad and good of heart: and when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and he rose not up and moved not himself for him, and Haman will be filled with wrath against Mordecai. And Haman will contain himself, and will go in to his house; and he will send and cause his friends to come, and Zeresh his wife. And Haman will recount to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all how the king magnified him, and how he lifted him up over the chiefs and servants of the king.

And he brought up a completion with the book, he will drag him in his net, and he will gather him in his fishnet: for this he will rejoice and be glad.

Also in laughter the heart shall have pain, and its latter state of joy, grief.

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

And the flesh yet between their teeth, before it shall be withdrawn and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah will smite upon them an exceeding great blow.

For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment

And all this was not an equivalent to me in all the time which I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate.

To David. Thou shalt not be angry at those doing evil, and thou shalt not envy those working iniquity.

Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine.

For the command is a lamp, and the law a light; and the way of life the reproof of instruction: