Joy of God Over His People, The

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• Zephaniah 3:17 OT

  Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

• Luke 15:7 NT

  I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

• Luke 15:10 NT

  Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

• Hebrews 11:5 NT

  By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

• Hebrews 11:6 NT

  Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

• Psalms 147:11 OT

  Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

• Proverbs 15:8 OT

  The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

• Psalms 149:4 OT

  For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

• 1 Chronicles 29:17 OT

  I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly…

• Proverbs 11:20 OT

  Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

• Deuteronomy 30:9 OT

  Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced…

• Deuteronomy 28:63 OT

  It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.

• Jeremiah 32:41 OT

  Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

• 2 Samuel 22:20 OT

  He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

• Isaiah 65:19 OT

  I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.

• Numbers 14:8 OT

  If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.

• Isaiah 62:5 OT

  For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

• Luke 15:23 NT

  Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat, and celebrate;

• Luke 15:24 NT

  for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

• 1 Kings 10:9 OT

  Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”