Luke 1:14

Contemporary English Version

His birth will make you very happy, and many people will be glad.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth.

King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnesse, and many shall reioyce at his birth:

King James Version
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

English Standard Version
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

New American Standard Bible
"You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice over his birth.

New Century Version
He will bring you joy and gladness, and many people will be happy because of his birth.

Amplified Bible
"You will have great joy and delight, and many will rejoice over his birth,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Berean Standard Bible
He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,

Complete Jewish Bible
He will be a joy and a delight to you, and many people will rejoice when he is born,

Darby Translation
And he shall be to thee joy and rejoicing, and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Easy-to-Read Version
You will be very happy, and many others will share your joy over his birth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnes, and many shall reioyce at his birth.

George Lamsa Translation
And you will have joy and gladness; and a great many will rejoice at his birth.

Good News Translation
How glad and happy you will be, and how happy many others will be when he is born!

Lexham English Bible
And you will experience joy and exultation, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Literal Translation
And he will be joy and exultation to you, and many will rejoice over his birth.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Bible in Basic English
And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

Hebrew Names Version
You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
And to thee shall be joy and exultation, and many shall rejoice in his birth:

Murdock Translation
And thou wilt have joy and gladness: and many will rejoice at his birth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnesse, and many shall reioyce at his birth.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

World English Bible
You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And thou shalt have joy and exultation, and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Weymouth's New Testament
Gladness and exultant joy shall be yours, and many will rejoice over his birth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ioye and gladyng schal be to thee; and many schulen `haue ioye in his natyuyte.

Update Bible Version
And you shall have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth.

New English Translation
Joy and gladness will come to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,

New King James Version
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

New Living Translation
You will have great joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

New Life Bible
You will be glad and have much joy. Many people will be happy because he is born.

New Revised Standard
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there shall be joy to thee and exulting, and, many, over his birth, shall rejoice;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt have joy and gladness: and many shall rejoice in his nativity.

Revised Standard Version
And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and thou shalt have ioye and gladnes and many shall reioyce at his birth.

Young's Literal Translation
and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& thou shalt haue ioye and gladnesse: and many shal reioyce at his byrth,

Mace New Testament (1729)
he shall be your joy and transport, and numbers shall rejoice at his birth.

Simplified Cowboy Version
He's going to make you, and a lot of other people, very happy.

Contextual Overview

⁵ When Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest by the name of Zechariah from the priestly group of Abijah. His wife Elizabeth was from the family of Aaron. ⁶ Both of them were good people and pleased the Lord God by obeying all that he had commanded. ⁷ But they did not have children. Elizabeth could not have any, and both Zechariah and Elizabeth were already old. ⁸ One day Zechariah's group of priests were on duty, and he was serving God as a priest. ⁹ According to the custom of the priests, he had been chosen to go into the Lord's temple that day and to burn incense, ¹⁰ while the people stood outside praying. ¹¹ All at once an angel from the Lord appeared to Zechariah at the right side of the altar. ¹² Zechariah was confused and afraid when he saw the angel. ¹³ But the angel told him: Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayers. Your wife Elizabeth will have a son, and you must name him John. ¹⁴ His birth will make you very happy, and many people will be glad.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 1:58, Genesis 21:6, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 23:15, Proverbs 23:24

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 3:4 - a time to laugh Jeremiah 20:15 - A man Luke 7:28 - Among

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
The earth was barren, with no form of life; it was under a roaring ocean covered with darkness. But the Spirit of God was moving over the water.

Genesis 1:3

The First Day

God said, "I command light to shine!" And light started shining.

Genesis 1:4
God looked at the light and saw that it was good. He separated light from darkness

Genesis 1:6

The Second Day

God said, "I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it."

Genesis 1:7
And that's what happened. God made the dome

Genesis 1:8
and named it "Sky." Evening came and then morning—that was the second day.

Genesis 1:9

The Third Day

God said, "I command the water under the sky to come together in one place, so there will be dry ground." And that's what happened.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced all kinds of vegetation. God looked at what he had done, and it was good.

Genesis 1:14

The Fourth Day

God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt have joy and gladness,.... Not only because of his having a son; but because this his son would be the prophet of the Highest; would go before the Lord, and prepare his ways; give knowledge of salvation to many, and light to them that were in darkness, and guide their feet in the way of peace: all which, and more, he afterwards expresses in his song, whereby this part of the angel's prediction had its accomplishment:

and many shall rejoice at his birth; as the neighbours and cousins of his parents did; see Luke 1:58 and not only they, but all others, who, afterwards had knowledge of him as prophet, and as the forerunner of the Messiah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Many shall rejoice at his birth - This does not refer so much to the time of his birth as to the subsequent rejoicing. Such will be his “character,” that he will be an honor to the family, and many will rejoice that he lived: or, in other words, he will be a blessing to mankind.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 1:14. Thou shalt have joy, c.] εσται χαρα σοι, He will be joy and gladness to thee. A child of prayer and faith is likely to be a source of comfort to his parents. Were proper attention paid to this point, there would be fewer disobedient children in the world and the number of broken-hearted parents would be lessened. But what can be expected from the majority of matrimonial connections, connections begun without the fear of God, and carried on without his love.

Many shall rejoice at his birth. — He shall be the minister of God for good to multitudes, who shall, through his preaching, be turned from the error of their ways, and converted to God their Saviour.