What Does the Bible Say About Steal Your Joy?

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 123 helpful votes

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.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

John 10:10 ESV / 100 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 81 helpful votes

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

James 1:2 ESV / 76 helpful votes

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

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Psalm 119:36 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 27 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

1 Samuel 2:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Luke 2:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.

Psalm 147:1-20 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. ...

Psalm 42:1-11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation ...

John 16:16-24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.” So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.” Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. ...

John 16:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Romans 3:3-5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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.

1 Kings 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

2 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes

I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 10:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.

Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 11 helpful votes

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” ...

Psalm 103:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Philippians 4:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

Psalm 119:2-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!

Deuteronomy 11:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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, ...

Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

Philippians 1:7-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

40 Bible Verses about Steal Your Joy

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 123 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:10 ESV / 100 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 87 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 81 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:2 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 62 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:36 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 2:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 2:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 147:1-20 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 42:1-11 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:16-24 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:3-5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:2-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 11:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 1:7-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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