'Happy' in the Bible

And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.

As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.

And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.

Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.

Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

He who has no respect for his neighbour is a sinner, but he who has pity for the poor is happy.

He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.

An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!

Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.

Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.

Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.

Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.

And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.

And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.

Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.

Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.

Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

Happy will she be who had faith that the things which the Lord has said to her will be done.

And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.

Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.

And, turning to the disciples, he said privately, Happy are the eyes which see the things you see:

And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.

But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.

And if he comes in the second division of the night or in the third, and they are watching for him, happy are those servants.

Happy is that servant who, when his lord comes, is doing so.

And, hearing these words, one of those who were at table with him said to him, Happy is the man who will be a guest in the kingdom of God.

For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.

If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:

Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.

Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.

The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.

Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness; have no part in their fear and do not be troubled;

If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.

(See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.)

And he said to me, Put in the book, Happy are the guests at the bride-feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.

Happy and holy is he who has a part in this first coming: over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will be ruling with him a thousand years.