The Fruit of the Spirit is Joy
Psalm 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is
fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for
evermore.
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"Joy" is associated with life.
Experiences of sorrow prepare for, and enlarge, the capacity
for "joy." Persecution for Christ's sake enhances "joy." Other
sources of "joy" are faith, hope, the "joy" of others which is
distinctive of Christian sympathy. In the OT and the NT God
Himself is the ground and object of the believer's "joy,"
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I Peter
1:6
Where in ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if
need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Romans 5:2
By whom also we have
access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in
hope of the glory of God.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of
God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in
the Holy Ghost.
Luke 10:20
Notwithstanding in this
rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather
rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Philippians 3:1
Finally, my
brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to
me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
John 10:10
The thief cometh not,
but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they
might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Romans 14:17-18
For the kingdom of
God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in
the Holy Ghost. 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is
acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Philippians 4:4
Rejoice in the
Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
I Thessalonians 5:16
Rejoice
evermore.
Repent
Psalm
32:3-11
When I kept
silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture
is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I
acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I
said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou
forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For this
shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou
mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not
come nigh unto him.
7 Thou art my hiding place; thou
shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with
songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct thee and
teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with
mine eye.
9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule,
which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit
and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
10 Many
sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD,
mercy shall compass him about.
11 Be glad in the LORD,
and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are
upright in heart.
Hebrews 12:5-11
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God
dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father
chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof
all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected
us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in
subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they
verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he
for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,
but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit
of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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