BIBLICAL HAPPINESS

BIBLICAL HAPPINESS

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

  God wants us to be happy.

  As a followup to yesterday’s DT, IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, using e-Sword concordance search I’m providing “happy” verses from KJV for your consideration and edification. (In other versions usually translated “blessed”.) Please read each verse in context in your personal Bible.

Gen_30:13  And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

Deu_33:29  Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

1Ki_10:8  Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.

2Ch_9:7  Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

Job_5:17  Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

Psa_127:5  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Psa_128:2  For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Psa_137:8  O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Psa_137:9  Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Psa_144:15  Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Psa_146:5  Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

Pro_3:13  Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Pro_3:18  She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

Pro_14:21  He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

Pro_16:20  He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.

Pro_28:14  Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

Pro_29:18  Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Jer_12:1  Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Mal_3:15  And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Joh_13:17  If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

Act_26:2  I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:

Rom_14:22  Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

Jas_5:11  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.

1Pe_3:14  But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

1Pe_4:14  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

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