Make a joyful noise unto the LORD

Synonyms for Joy: happiness, delight, bliss, triumph, gladness, ecstasy, felicity, elation, enjoyment, euphoria, glee, cheerfulness, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, joyfulness, jubilation, rapture, ebullience, and pleasure

Psalms 97:11 (KJV)
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Psalms 98:4 (KJV)
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

Psalms 119:111 (KJV)
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Psalms 126:1-2 (KJV)
When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. 2. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

Psalms 126:6 (KJV)
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Proverbs 12:20 (KJV)
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Proverbs 14:10 (KJV)
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Proverbs 15:21 (KJV)
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

Proverbs 17:21 (KJV)
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

Proverbs 17:22 (KJV)
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 21:15 (KJV)
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 (KJV)
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:19 (KJV)
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Isaiah 12:3 (KJV)
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Isaiah 26:19 (KJV)
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 29:19 (KJV)
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 65:18 (KJV)
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

Habakkuk 3:18 (KJV)
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Matthew 13:19-20 (KJV)
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. 20. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

Matthew 13:44 (KJV)
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

John 16:21-22 (KJV)
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. 22. 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.

Romans 14:17 (KJV)
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Philippians 2:1-2 (KJV)
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2. Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

1 Thessalonians 1:6 (KJV)
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

1 Thessalonians 3:9 (KJV)
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

Hebrews 10:34 (KJV)
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Hebrews 12:2 (KJV)
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 13:17 (KJV)
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

James 1:2 (KJV)
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

1 Peter 1:8-9 (KJV)
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Jude 1:24 (KJV)
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

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