84 Bible Verses about Christian Hedonism (KJV)

Here are 84 Bible verses about Christian hedonism, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Psalm 37:4 KJV

⁴Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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Psalm 16:11 KJV

¹¹Thou 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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John 15:11 KJV

¹¹These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

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Matthew 13:44 KJV

⁴⁴Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

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2 Corinthians 1:24 KJV

²⁴Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

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2 Timothy 3:2-5 KJV

²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, ⁴Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; ⁵Having a form of godliness, but denying the …

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1 Timothy 6:6 KJV

⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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Philippians 3:8 KJV

⁸Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

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Hebrews 11:6 KJV

⁶But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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Romans 15:13 KJV

¹³Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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Nehemiah 8:10 KJV

¹⁰Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

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John 17:17 KJV

¹⁷Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

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John 16:24 KJV

²⁴Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

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Psalm 119:105 KJV

¹⁰⁵Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

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Acts 20:35 KJV

³⁵I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Jeremiah 15:16 KJV

¹⁶Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.

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Jeremiah 9:24 KJV

²⁴But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

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Psalm 119:16 KJV

¹⁶I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

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Psalm 90:14 KJV

¹⁴O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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Psalm 67:4 KJV

⁴O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

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Psalm 32:11 KJV

¹¹Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

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Psalm 19:8 KJV

⁸The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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1 John 2:14 KJV

¹⁴I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

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Philippians 4:4 KJV

⁴Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

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Galatians 5:22 KJV

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

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Romans 15:4 KJV

⁴For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

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Psalm 119:97 KJV

⁹⁷O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

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Psalm 19:7-11 KJV

⁷The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. ⁸The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. ⁹The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. ¹⁰More to be desired …

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Psalm 19:7 KJV

⁷The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

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1 Peter 1:23 KJV

²³Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

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Hebrews 11:24-26 KJV

²⁴By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; ²⁵Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; ²⁶Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

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Hebrews 1:3 KJV

³Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

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2 Timothy 3:16 KJV

¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

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Philippians 2:12-13 KJV

¹²Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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Philippians 2:3 KJV

³Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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John 20:31 KJV

³¹But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

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John 15:5 KJV

⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

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John 14:26 KJV

²⁶But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

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John 8:32 KJV

³²And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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Luke 12:33 KJV

³³Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

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Luke 6:35 KJV

³⁵But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

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Matthew 16:24 KJV

²⁴Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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Matthew 4:4 KJV

⁴But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

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Proverbs 30:5 KJV

⁵Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

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2 Peter 3:16 KJV

¹⁶As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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2 Peter 2:13 KJV

¹³And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

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2 Peter 1:21 KJV

²¹For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

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2 Peter 1:4 KJV

⁴Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

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James 4:3 KJV

³Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

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James 1:18 KJV

¹⁸Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

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Hebrews 13:17 KJV

¹⁷Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

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Hebrews 12:2 KJV

²Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Hebrews 12:1-2 KJV

¹Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, ²Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Hebrews 11:3 KJV

³Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

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Hebrews 11:1 KJV

¹Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Ephesians 6:17 KJV

¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

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Ephesians 5:25 KJV

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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1 Corinthians 2:13 KJV

¹³Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

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Romans 10:17 KJV

¹⁷So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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John 16:13 KJV

¹³Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

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John 15:7 KJV

⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

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John 15:3 KJV

³Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

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John 14:13 KJV

¹³And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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John 10:35 KJV

³⁵If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Luke 24:44 KJV

⁴⁴And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

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Luke 16:9 KJV

⁹And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

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Luke 14:12-14 KJV

¹²Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. ¹³But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: ¹⁴And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be …

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Luke 9:23 KJV

²³And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

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Mark 12:31 KJV

³¹And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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Matthew 22:29 KJV

²⁹Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

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Matthew 16:25 KJV

²⁵For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

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Matthew 5:17 KJV

¹⁷Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

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Zechariah 1:1 KJV

¹In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

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Micah 6:8 KJV

⁸He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

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Micah 1:1 KJV

¹The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

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Proverbs 18:17 KJV

¹⁷He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

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Psalm 119:111 KJV

¹¹¹Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

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Psalm 119:52 KJV

⁵²I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.

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Psalm 119:50 KJV

⁵⁰This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

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Psalm 119:45 KJV

⁴⁵And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

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Psalm 119:11 KJV

¹¹Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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Psalm 33:9 KJV

⁹For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

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Deuteronomy 8:3 KJV

³And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

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