Psalm 4:7
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7 You have given me greater joy
than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine.
Isaiah 9:3
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3 You will enlarge the nation of Israel,
and its people will rejoice.
They will rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the harvest
and like warriors dividing the plunder.
Psalm 63:2-5
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2 I have seen you in your sanctuary
and gazed upon your power and glory.
3 Your unfailing love is better than life itself;
how I praise you!
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
lifting up my hands to you in prayer.
5 You satisfy me more than the richest feast.
I will praise you with songs of joy.
Psalm 37:4
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4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you your heart’s desires.
Psalm 43:4
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4 There I will go to the altar of God,
to God—the source of all my joy.
I will praise you with my harp,
O God, my God!
Acts 14:17
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17 but he never left them without evidence of himself and his goodness. For instance, he sends you rain and good crops and gives you food and joyful hearts.”
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Psalm 92:4
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4 You thrill me, Lord, with all you have done for me!
I sing for joy because of what you have done.
Jeremiah 48:33
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33 Joy and gladness are gone from fruitful Moab.
The presses yield no wine.
No one treads the grapes with shouts of joy.
There is shouting, yes, but not of joy.
Judges 9:27
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27 During the annual harvest festival at Shechem, held in the temple of the local god, the wine flowed freely, and everyone began cursing Abimelech.
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1 Peter 1:8
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8 You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.
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