Deuteronomy 16:14-15
16:14 You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.
16:15 You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the
Lord your God in the place he
chooses, for he
will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do;
so you will indeed rejoice!
Isaiah 35:10
35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way.
They will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them,
happiness and joy will overwhelm them;
grief and suffering will disappear.
Isaiah 66:10
66:10 Be happy for Jerusalem
and rejoice with her, all you who love her!
Share in her great joy,
all you who have mourned over her!
John 16:22
16:22 So also you have sorrow
now, but
I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Romans 5:11
5:11 Not
only this, but we also rejoice
in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.
Philippians 3:3
3:3 For we are the circumcision,
the ones who worship by the Spirit of God,
exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials
Philippians 4:4
4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!
Philippians 4:1
Christian Practices
4:1 So then, my brothers and sisters, dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!
Philippians 1:8
1:8 For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.