197 occurrences in 13 translations

'Glad' in the Bible

is never glad with sin; she's always glad to side with truth, and pleased that truth will win.

I should be right glad were you all to speak in 'tongues,' but yet more glad were you all to prophesy. And, in fact, the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in 'tongues,' except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church may get a blessing.

But I make known to you, brethren, the glad tidings which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,

by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not be filled with sorrow by those who ought to make me glad, for I trusted in you and felt confident that my joy would be shared by all of you.

Now when I came to Troas for the publication of the glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in the Lord,

But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;

And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.

yet I am glad now, not because you were hurt and made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance [and you turned back to God]; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that you might not suffer loss in anything on our account.

So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.

but we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;

they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;

For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ;)

to announce the glad tidings to that which is beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.

For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it.

Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?

which is not another one; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.

As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one announce to you as glad tidings anything besides what ye have received, let him be accursed.

But I let you know, brethren, as to the glad tidings which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.

was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,

only they were hearing that he who persecuted us formerly now announces the glad tidings of the faith which formerly he ravaged:

and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,

But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

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.

and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who were afar off, and the glad tidings of peace to those who were nigh.

and for me in order that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the glad tidings,

What then? only that in every way, falsely or truly, the preaching of Christ goes on; and in this I am glad, and will be glad.

And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

I am therefore all the more eager to send him, in the hope that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have the less sorrow.

For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.

yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.

but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;

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;

according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;

For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

Seeing therefore it remains that some enter into it, and those who first received the glad tidings did not enter in on account of not hearkening to the word,

But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

but the word of the Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings is preached to you.

For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.

I was very glad to find some of your children walking in the truth, in keeping with a command we have received from the Father.

For I was very glad when some brothers came and testified to your faithfulness to the truth—how you are walking in the truth.

but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God also shall be completed, as he has made known the glad tidings to his own bondmen the prophets.

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

So be glad, heavens, and those who live in them! How terrible it is for the earth and the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, filled with rage, knowing that his time is short!"

'Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
εὐαγγελίζω 
Euaggelizo 
Usage: 50

G21
ἀγαλλιάω 
Agalliao 
Usage: 8

ἥδιστα 
hedista 
Usage: 2

גּוּל גּיל 
Giyl 
Usage: 45

גּיל 
Giyl 
Usage: 9

חדה 
Chadah 
Usage: 3

חדוה 
Chedvah 
Usage: 2

טאב 
T@'eb (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 553

טוּב 
Tuwb 
Usage: 32

רנּה 
Rinnah 
Usage: 33

שׂישׂ שׂוּשׂ 
Suws 
Usage: 27

שׂמח 
Samach 
Usage: 155

שׂמח 
Sameach 
Usage: 20

שׂמחה 
Simchah 
Usage: 93

שׂשׂן שׂשׂון 
Sasown 
Usage: 23

G20
ἀγαλλίασις 
Agalliasis 
Usage: 5

ἀποδέχομαι 
Apodechomai 
Usage: 5

ἀσμένως 
Asmenos 
Usage: 1

εὐφραίνω 
Euphraino 
Usage: 8

εὐφροσύνη 
Euphrosune 
Usage: 2

ἡδέως 
hedeos 
Usage: 3

χαίρω 
Chairo 
Usage: 60

χαρά 
Chara 
Usage: 44

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