Bible Verses about Happiness

Share

Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 06/13/2023
Bible Verses about Happiness

Bible Verses about Happiness - Scriptures on Joy

We all want to be happy, but sometimes trying to find happiness can be difficult. Often times we search for it in all the wrong places or ways when the answer is much simpler - God. "Happy are the people whose God is the Lord" Psalm 144:15. Scripture guides us to true happiness through knowing the promises in God's Word!

Top Bible Verses for Happiness

Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Psalm 37:4

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

Isaiah 12:2

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”

A Prayer for Happiness: Lord, I long to know and experience happiness in my life. I’m not talking about shallow pleasures. Those come and go, and the wrong kind leave us empty and unfulfilled. The happiness I desire is so much more than skin deep. It’s bigger than my circumstances and larger than my emotions. I want the kind of happiness that trusts you, obeys you, and follows you regardless of where that path leads. Amen

Read and meditate on these Bible verses about happiness to realize the joy that God intends for us when we have faith and gratitude for the life He has given!

Psalms 37:4

Never Stop Dreaming
4 Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Read Chapter All Versions

Isaiah 12:2

2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation.”
Read Chapter All Versions

Isaiah 12:3

3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Read Chapter All Versions

Romans 5:2

2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Read Chapter All Versions

2 Corinthians 12:10-11

2 Corinthians 12:10
10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
11 I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
Read Chapter All Versions

Matthew 5:8

8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Read Chapter All Versions

1 John 3:18

18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
Read Chapter All Versions

1 Peter 4:13

13 But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
Read Chapter All Versions

Deuteronomy 33:29

29 Blessed are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will tread on their heights.”
Read Chapter All Versions

2 Chronicles 9:7

7 How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
Read Chapter All Versions

Job 5:17

17 “Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
Read Chapter All Versions

Proverbs 16:20

20 Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,and blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD.
Read Chapter All Versions

Psalms 37:4-14

Psalm 37:5
4 Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this:
6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.
7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil.
9 For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
11 But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity.
12 The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.
14 The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
Read Chapter All Versions