Topic
Happiness
70 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 11:33Nave Successful oppression — Often interrupted by judgments
And 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.
- Deuteronomy 33:29Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
- Esther 5:9–11Nave Israel — Haman
¶ Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came…
- Esther 5:13Nave Successful oppression — Marred by jealousy
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
- Job 5:17–27Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil…
- Job 15:21Nave Successful oppression — Often interrupted by judgments
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Job 20:5Nave OF THE WICKED — Is short
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Job 21:7Nave Their power
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- Job 21:12Nave Vain pleasure
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- Job 21:13Nave Their wealth
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Psalms 17:14Nave OF THE WICKED — Is limited to this life
From 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.
- Psalms 36:8Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
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- Psalms 37:1 Nave Successful oppression — Envy not
- Psalms 37:3 Nave Their worldly prosperity
- Psalms 37:4 Nave Their worldly prosperity
- Psalms 37:7 Nave Their worldly prosperity
- Psalms 37:35 Nave Their power
- Psalms 37:36 Nave Successful oppression — Illustrated
- Psalms 40:8 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Psalms 52:7 Nave Their wealth
- Psalms 63:5 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Psalms 73:3 Nave Successful oppression — Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints
- Psalms 73:16 Nave Successful oppression — Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints
- Psalms 73:17–20 Nave Successful oppression — Saints often permitted to see the end of
- Psalms 73:18–20 Nave Successful oppression — Often interrupted by judgments
- Psalms 128:1 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Psalms 128:2 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Psalms 133:1 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Psalms 144:15 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Psalms 146:5 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Proverbs 3:13–18 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Proverbs 14:13 Nave Successful oppression — Leads to sorrow
- Proverbs 14:21 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Proverbs 16:20 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Proverbs 28:14 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Proverbs 29:18 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Ecclesiastes 2:1 Nave OF THE WICKED — Is vain
- Ecclesiastes 2:24–26 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Ecclesiastes 3:12 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Ecclesiastes 3:13 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Ecclesiastes 3:22 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Ecclesiastes 7:6 Nave OF THE WICKED — Is vain
- Isaiah 5:11 Nave Drunkenness
- Isaiah 5:12 Nave Vain pleasure
- Isaiah 12:2 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Isaiah 12:3 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Isaiah 22:12 Nave Successful oppression — Leads to recklessness
- Isaiah 22:13 Nave Gluttony
- Isaiah 56:12 Nave Drunkenness
- Jeremiah 12:1 Nave Successful oppression — Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints
- Jeremiah 25:10 Nave Successful oppression — Often interrupted by judgments
- Jeremiah 25:11 Nave Successful oppression — Often interrupted by judgments
- Daniel 5:1 Nave Israel — Belshazzar
- Amos 6:1 Nave Successful oppression — Woe against
- Habakkuk 1:13 Nave Successful oppression — Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints
- Habakkuk 1:15 Nave Successful oppression
- Habakkuk 1:16 Nave Gluttony
- Matthew 5:3–12 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Luke 6:25 Nave Successful oppression — Woe against
- Luke 12:16–20 Nave Successful oppression — Illustrated
- Luke 12:20 Nave OF THE WICKED — Is uncertain
- Luke 16:19 Nave Successful oppression — Illustrated
- Luke 16:25 Nave OF THE WICKED — Is limited to this life
- Acts 12:21–23 Nave Israel — Herod
- Romans 5:2 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- 2 Corinthians 12:10 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- Philippians 4:7 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- 1 Peter 3:14 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- 1 Peter 4:12 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- 1 Peter 4:13 Nave OF THE RIGHTEOUS
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
hap'-i-nes.
See BLESSEDNESS.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 74 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → OF THE WICKED
- Their wealth Job 21:13; Ps 52:7
- Their power Job 21:7; Ps 37:35
- Their worldly prosperity Ps 17:14; 37:3,4,7
- Gluttony Isa 22:13; Hab 1:16
- Drunkenness Isa 5:11; 56:12
- Vain pleasure Job 21:12; Isa 5:12
- Successful oppression Hab 1:15
- Marred by jealousy Es 5:13
- Often interrupted by judgments Nu 11:33; Job 15:21; Ps 73:18-20; Jer 25:10,11
- Leads to sorrow Pr 14:13
- Leads to recklessness Isa 22:12
- Sometimes a stumbling-block to saints Ps 73:3,16; Jer 12:1; Hab 1:13
- Saints often permitted to see the end of Ps 73:17-20
- Envy not Ps 37:1
- Woe against Am 6:1; Lu 6:25
- Illustrated Ps 37:35,36; Lu 12:16-20; 16:19,25
- Exemplified
- Israel Nu 11:33
- Haman Es 5:9-11
- Belshazzar Da 5:1
- Herod Ac 12:21-23
- → OF THE RIGHTEOUS De 33:29; Job 5:17-27; Ps 36:8; 40:8; 63:5; 128:1,2; 133:1; 144:15; 146:5; Pr 3:13-18; 14:21; 16:20; 28:14; 29:18; Ec 2:24-26; 3:12,13,22; Isa 12:2,3; Mt 5:3-12; Ro 5:2; 2Co 12:10; Php 4:7; 1Pe 3:14; 4:12,13
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.