joy

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy;

At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart:

The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life:

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 

 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 

 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. 

 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.  

 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,

And a light unto my path.

 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 

 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 

 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

As it is written,

For thy sake we are killed all the day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 

 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 

 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 

 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 

 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;  

 rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 

 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.  

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 

 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.  

 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. 

 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 

 And of some have compassion, making a difference:  

 and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 

 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:  

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 

 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 

 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 

 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:  

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 

 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight:

That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. 

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

 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

As it is written,

For thy sake we are killed all the day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 

 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,  

 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 

 who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 

 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  

 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me:

O LORD, make haste to help me.

I love the LORD,

Because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 

 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.  

 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 

 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.  

 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.  

 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 

 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 

 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 

 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.  

My son, forget not my law;

But let thine heart keep my commandments:

For length of days, and long life,

And peace, shall they add to thee.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee:

Bind them about thy neck;

Write them upon the table of thine heart:

So shalt thou find favour and good understanding

In the sight of God and man.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart;

And lean not unto thine own understanding.

In all thy ways acknowledge him,

And he shall direct thy paths.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:

And with all thy getting get understanding.

 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 

 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is , Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:  

 and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 

 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. 

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;

Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress:

My God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,

And from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust:

His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

The fear of the LORD tendeth to life:

And he that hath it shall abide satisfied;

He shall not be visited with evil.

 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 

 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.  

 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. 

 who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  

 he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 

 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?  

 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 

 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 

 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 

 and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 

 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 

 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  

 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

 Give us day by day our daily bread. 

 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. 

 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. 

 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 

There are many devices in a man's heart;

Nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

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

 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.  

O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger,

Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak:

O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

My soul is also sore vexed:

But thou, O LORD, how long?

 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul:

Oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee:

In the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;

And uphold me with thy free spirit. 

I will never forget thy precepts:

For with them thou hast quickened me.

 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;  

 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 

 grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 

 according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 

 whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 

 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 

 and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 

 and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.  

 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 

 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:  

 for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;  

 knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. 

 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. 

 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.  

 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.  

 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.  

 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts :

 knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 

 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,

And hast crowned him with glory and honour.

 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 

 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 

Thou compassest my path and my lying down,

And art acquainted with all my ways.

For there is not a word in my tongue,

But, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Thou hast beset me behind and before,

And laid thine hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

It is high, I cannot attain unto it. 

 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. 

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  

The LORD is my strength and song,

And he is become my salvation:

He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation;

My father's God, and I will exalt him.

 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;  

 but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. 

 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 

 comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. 

 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 

 for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 

 which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: 

 if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; 

 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.  

For the LORD giveth wisdom:

Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous:

He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

He keepeth the paths of judgment,

And preserveth the way of his saints.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment,

And equity; yea, every good path.

When wisdom entereth into thine heart,

And knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

Discretion shall preserve thee,

Understanding shall keep thee:

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,

From the man that speaketh froward things;

Who leave the paths of uprightness,

To walk in the ways of darkness;

Who rejoice to do evil,

And delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Whose ways are crooked,

And they froward in their paths:

To deliver thee from the strange woman,

Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth,

And forgetteth the covenant of her God.

For her house inclineth unto death,

And her paths unto the dead.

None that go unto her return again,

Neither take they hold of the paths of life.

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,

And keep the paths of the righteous.

For the upright shall dwell in the land,

And the perfect shall remain in it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,

And the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom:

And the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

 that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 

 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 

 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.