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100 Bible Verses about Peace And Joy

Romans 14:17 ESV / 202 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 199 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 145 helpful votes

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 144 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 123 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 120 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 105 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

John 16:22 ESV / 102 helpful votes

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

John 15:11 ESV / 101 helpful votes

These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

Romans 12:15 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

John 16:24 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Psalm 94:19 ESV / 88 helpful votes

When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

1 Peter 1:8-9 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

James 1:2-3 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 78 helpful votes

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 76 helpful votes

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Psalm 5:11 ESV / 75 helpful votes

But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.

John 16:33 ESV / 74 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 73 helpful votes

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Psalm 4:7 ESV / 72 helpful votes

You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

John 14:27 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 63 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 63 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 62 helpful votes

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 62 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Psalm 119:111 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 32:11 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Philippians 2:1-2 ESV / 61 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 60 helpful votes

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Psalm 51:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 51 helpful votes

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

1 Thessalonians 5:16 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Rejoice always,

Colossians 1:11 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;

Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

Romans 8:6 ESV / 50 helpful votes

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 50 helpful votes

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Psalm 19:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Habakkuk 3:17-18 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Psalm 97:11 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

Psalm 71:23 ESV / 49 helpful votes

My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

Luke 15:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Psalm 119:14 ESV / 48 helpful votes

In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.

Psalm 47:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

Psalm 27:6 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

1 Chronicles 16:27 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

James 1:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,

1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

Luke 10:17 ESV / 39 helpful votes

The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

3 John 1:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Psalm 29:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes

May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Romans 12:18 ESV / 37 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Romans 5:1-5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV / 37 helpful votes

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

Proverbs 12:20 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

Psalm 68:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!

Psalm 51:8 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

Psalm 28:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

2 Corinthians 8:1-2 ESV / 36 helpful votes

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

2 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 36 helpful votes

I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.

Romans 16:20 ESV / 36 helpful votes

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Romans 15:32 ESV / 36 helpful votes

So that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Luke 15:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Isaiah 35:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 12:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 9:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes

You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 ESV / 36 helpful votes

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

Proverbs 10:28 ESV / 36 helpful votes

The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

1 Kings 8:66 ESV / 36 helpful votes

On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.

2 John 1:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

Psalm 16:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

John 17:13 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 27 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Luke 6:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

James 3:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Acts 13:52 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

John 20:21 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Psalm 43:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.

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