Bible verses about "happiness" | Coverdale

¹⁷ Beholde, happie is the man, whom God punysheth: therfore, despyse not thou ye chastenynge of the Allmighty. ¹⁸ For though he make a wounde, he geueth a medicyne agayne: though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne. ¹⁹ He delyuereth the out of sixe troubles, so that in the seuenth there can no harme touch the. ²⁰ In the myddest of honger he saueth ye from death: and when it is warre, from the power of the swearde. ²¹ He shall kepe the from the perlous tonge so that when trouble commeth, thou shalt not nede to feare. ²² In destruccion and derth thou shalt be mery, and shalt not be afrayed for the beastes of the earth: ²³ But the castels in the londe shal be confederate with the, & the beastes of the felde shall geue the peace: ²⁴ Yee thou shalt se, that thy dwellynge place shalbe in rest: thou shalt beholde thy substaunce, and be nomore punyshed for synne. ²⁵ Thou shalt se also, that thy sede shall encreace, and that thy posterite shalbe as the grasse vpon the earth. ²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy graue in a fayre age, like as ye corne sheeues are brought in to the barne in due season. ²⁷ Lo, this is the matter, as we oure selues haue proued by experience. Therfore now that thou hearest it, take better hede to thy selff.

³ Put thou thy trust in ye LORDE, & be doinge good: so shalt thou dwell in the londe, & verely it shal fede the.

¹³ For all yt a man eateth & drynketh, yee what so euer a ma enioyeth of all his labor, ye same is a gift of God.

¹⁰ Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge.

¹⁴ Not withstodinge blessed are ye, yf ye suffre for righteousnes sake Feare not ye their threatnynge, nether be troubled,

¹² Derely beloued, maruell not at this heate (which is come amoge you to trye you) as though some strauge thinge happened vnto you:

³ Therfore with ioye shal ye drawe water out of the welles of the Sauioure,

⁷ And ye peace of God, which passeth all vnderstodinge, kepe youre hertes and myndes in Christ Iesu.

¹³ Well is him that fyndeth wy?dome, & opteyneth vnderstondinge, ¹⁴ for the gettinge of it is better then eny marchaundise of syluer, & the profit of it is better then golde. ¹⁵ Wy?dome is more worth the precious stones, & all ye thinges yt thou canst desyre, are not to be compared vnto her. ¹⁶ Vpon hir right hande is longe life, & vpon hir left hande is riches & honor. ¹⁷ Hir wayes are pleasaunt wayes, and all hir pathes are peaceable. ¹⁸ She is a tre of life to them that laye holde vpon her, and blessed are they that kepe her fast.

¹³ The herte is soroufull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heuynesse.

² Beholde, God is my health, in whom I trust, and am not afrayde. For the LORDE God is my strength, and my prayse, he also shalbe my refuge.

⁴ Reioyce in the LORDE allwaye, & agayne I saye, Reioyse.

¹² So I perceaued, yt in these thinges there is nothinge better for a man, the to be mery & to do well so longe as he lyueth.

⁴ Delyte thou in the LORDE, & he shal geue the thy hertes desyre.