Bible verses about Cheerfulness
Verses about a glad heart and the joy that shows in daily life.
Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.
Psalms 100:2A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 15:13All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
Proverbs 15:15A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,
Ecclesiastes 3:12and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:13Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
Ecclesiastes 9:7yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
Habakkuk 3:18So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
John 16:22if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
Romans 12:8Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
Romans 12:12Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7Do everything without complaining or arguing,
Philippians 2:14so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Philippians 2:15Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
Philippians 4:4Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
Philippians 4:5Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,
Colossians 3:23Rejoice at all times.
1 Thessalonians 5:16Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
James 1:2Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
1 Peter 1:8But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.
1 Peter 4:13