What Does the Bible Say About Laughter?

Job 8:21 ESV / 41 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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

Psalm 126:2 ESV / 24 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 / 19 helpful votes

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

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 10:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

James 5:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

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 / 5 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 3 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.’

Proverbs 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. ...

Deuteronomy 29:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Bible Verses about Laughter