What Does the Bible Say About Laughter?

Job 8:21 ESV / 65 helpful votes

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 52 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Psalm 126:2 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Luke 6:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

James 5:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Ecclesiastes 10:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

Proverbs 15:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.

Proverbs 14:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Genesis 21:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.”

Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.

Psalm 59:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.

Proverbs 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

Psalm 37:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

16 Bible Verses about Laughter