Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.
But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness; have no part in their fear and do not be troubled;
If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;
Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.
To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:
So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king.
But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;
Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.
Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.
So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.
And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.
As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.
Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.
Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.
For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;
Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.
If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.
And, turning to the disciples, he said privately, Happy are the eyes which see the things you see:
And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.
But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.
And if he comes in the second division of the night or in the third, and they are watching for him, happy are those servants.
Happy is that servant who, when his lord comes, is doing so.
And, hearing these words, one of those who were at table with him said to him, Happy is the man who will be a guest in the kingdom of God.
Happy will she be who had faith that the things which the Lord has said to her will be done.
For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.
And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.
Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.
Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.
And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.
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