Nave’s Topical Bible
Happiness
63 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- OF THE WICKED
- Is limited to this life
- Is short
- Is uncertain
- Is vain
- Is derived from
- Their wealth
- Their power
- Their worldly prosperity
- Gluttony
- Drunkenness
- Vain pleasure
- Successful oppression
- Marred by jealousy
- Often interrupted by judgments
Numbers 11:33; Job 15:21; Psalms 73:18-20; Jeremiah 25:10-11
- Leads to sorrow
- Leads to recklessness
- Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints
- Saints often permitted to see the end of
- Envy not
- Woe against
- Illustrated
- Exemplified
- Israel
- Haman
- Belshazzar
- Herod
- OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Deuteronomy 33:29; Job 5:17-27; Psalms 36:8; Psalms 40:8; Psalms 63:5; Psalms 128:1-2; Psalms 133:1; Psalms 144:15; Psalms 146:5; Proverbs 3:13-18; Proverbs 14:21; Proverbs 16:20; Proverbs 28:14; Proverbs 29:18; Ecclesiastes 2:24-26; Ecclesiastes 3:12-13,22; Isaiah 12:2-3; Matthew 5:3-12; Romans 5:2; 2 Corinthians 12:10; Philippians 4:7; 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 4:12-13
Bible verses about “Happiness”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Psalms 17:14From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
- Luke 16:25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
- Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
- Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
- Job 21:7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
- Psalms 37:3Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
- Psalms 37:4Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
- Psalms 37:7Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
- Isaiah 22:13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
- Habakkuk 1:16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
- Isaiah 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
- Isaiah 56:12Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
- Job 21:12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- Isaiah 5:12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
- Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
- Esther 5:13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
- Numbers 11:33And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.
- Job 15:21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Psalms 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
- Psalms 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Psalms 73:20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- Jeremiah 25:10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
- Jeremiah 25:11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
- Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Psalms 73:3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Psalms 73:16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous 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?
- Habakkuk 1:13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
- Psalms 73:17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
- Psalms 37:1Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Amos 6:1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
- Luke 6:25Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
- Psalms 37:36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
- Luke 12:16And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: