The best Bible verses for joy (NASB) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for joy (NASB), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be [the joy] of you all."2 Corinthians 2:3
"This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be [the joy] of you all."2 Corinthians 2:3
"Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction."2 Corinthians 7:4
"and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced even more."2 Corinthians 7:7
"that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality."2 Corinthians 8:2
"strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously"Colossians 1:11
"and you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your towns."Deuteronomy 16:14
"'Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;"Deuteronomy 28:47
"Go [then], eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works."Ecclesiastes 9:7
"Where then is that sense of blessing you had? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me."Galatians 4:15
"'YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED LAWLESSNESS; THEREFORE GOD, YOUR GOD, HAS ANOINTED YOU WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE YOUR COMPANIONS.'"Hebrews 1:9
"For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one."Hebrews 10:34
"fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."Hebrews 12:2
"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,"Hebrews 12:22
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for joy (NASB) are 2 Corinthians 2:3, 2 Corinthians 7:4, 2 Corinthians 7:7. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to joy (NASB) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for joy (NASB), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.