100 Bible Verses about Serve With Joyful Heart

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Psalm 100:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!

1 Thessalonians 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Rejoice always,

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Proverbs 15:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

1 Samuel 12:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Romans 12:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

John 16:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Mark 10:45 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 Peter 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Romans 12:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 7:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 104:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.

Psalm 100:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!

Psalm 64:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult!

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 28:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Psalm 21:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.

Psalm 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

Deuteronomy 10:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

2 John 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 John 3:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Peter 4:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. ...

1 Peter 3:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

1 Peter 3:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

1 Peter 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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,

James 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Hebrews 10:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Hebrews 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment,

Philemon 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Titus 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.

1 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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,

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Corinthians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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; ...

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 12:9-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...

Acts 26:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers, to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!

Acts 20:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Acts 13:52 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Acts 8:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 17:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 17:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

John 15:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

John 12:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Luke 22:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

Luke 21:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 23:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The greatest among you shall be your servant.

Matthew 20:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...

Matthew 15:21-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.” But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” ...

Matthew 10:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”