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100 Bible Verses about Humor And Laughter

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 2,114 helpful votes

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

Psalm 126:2 ESV / 1,505 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.”

Job 8:21 ESV / 1,375 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 1,151 helpful votes

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

Genesis 21:6 ESV / 1,018 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:13 ESV / 899 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:13 ESV / 869 helpful votes

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 758 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:21 ESV / 695 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:13 ESV / 661 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 610 helpful votes

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 511 helpful votes

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 32:11 ESV / 507 helpful votes

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 447 helpful votes

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV / 436 helpful votes

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

Psalm 4:7 ESV / 424 helpful votes

You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

Proverbs 15:15 ESV / 405 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 385 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Psalm 16:8-11 ESV / 384 helpful votes

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Ecclesiastes 10:19 ESV / 338 helpful votes

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

Job 12:4 ESV / 311 helpful votes

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

Ecclesiastes 2:2 ESV / 294 helpful votes

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

James 5:13 ESV / 289 helpful votes

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

Psalm 59:8 ESV / 286 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:12-13 ESV / 270 helpful votes

The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 246 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Habakkuk 1:10 ESV / 232 helpful votes

At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 227 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

James 4:9 ESV / 226 helpful votes

Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 221 helpful votes

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Ecclesiastes 7:3 ESV / 220 helpful votes

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.

Genesis 17:17 ESV / 217 helpful votes

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 206 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Proverbs 29:9 ESV / 205 helpful votes

If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

Matthew 9:24 ESV / 197 helpful votes

He said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him.

Genesis 18:12-15 ESV / 197 helpful votes

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?” The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.” But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 194 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

Psalm 47:1 ESV / 193 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

Psalm 43:4 ESV / 181 helpful votes

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.

Habakkuk 3:18 ESV / 180 helpful votes

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 180 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 169 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 163 helpful votes

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

Genesis 18:12 ESV / 162 helpful votes

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”

Romans 12:15 ESV / 161 helpful votes

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

2 Timothy 1:7-10 ESV / 156 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

Genesis 21:6-7 ESV / 152 helpful votes

And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.” And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Psalm 30:11 ESV / 151 helpful votes

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

Romans 12:9 ESV / 150 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Proverbs 1:26 ESV / 149 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 26:19 ESV / 145 helpful votes

Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”

Jeremiah 33:11 ESV / 144 helpful votes

The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.

Luke 1:14 ESV / 142 helpful votes

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

John 15:11 ESV / 140 helpful votes

These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 139 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 139 helpful votes

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Ecclesiastes 8:15 ESV / 139 helpful votes

And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Job 5:22 ESV / 138 helpful votes

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.

Luke 7:34 ESV / 137 helpful votes

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

1 Kings 18:27 ESV / 137 helpful votes

And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”

Psalm 2:3-4 ESV / 136 helpful votes

“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

Psalm 98:4 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!

Ecclesiastes 3:2-4 ESV / 134 helpful votes

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 134 helpful votes

Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 132 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 31:25-26 ESV / 132 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Jeremiah 31:13 ESV / 131 helpful votes

Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

Psalm 65:12-13 ESV / 131 helpful votes

The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy, the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.

Psalm 42:5 ESV / 131 helpful votes

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation

Ecclesiastes 7:1-29 ESV / 130 helpful votes

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools. ...

Psalm 126:2-3 ESV / 130 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.” The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.

Psalm 96:12 ESV / 129 helpful votes

Let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy

Matthew 2:10 ESV / 128 helpful votes

When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 127 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

Luke 2:10 ESV / 127 helpful votes

And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.

1 Corinthians 2:14-15 ESV / 126 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 ESV / 125 helpful votes

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 125 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Psalm 16:8 ESV / 123 helpful votes

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Luke 7:31-34 ESV / 122 helpful votes

“To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’ For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Luke 6:45 ESV / 122 helpful votes

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 120 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Proverbs 26:18-19 ESV / 117 helpful votes

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”

Psalm 59:7-8 ESV / 116 helpful votes

There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?” But you, O Lord, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.

Numbers 22:28-30 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.” And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?” And he said, “No.”

Mark 5:40 ESV / 111 helpful votes

And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.

Jeremiah 51:39 ESV / 105 helpful votes

While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the Lord.

Esther 5:1-14 ESV / 105 helpful votes

On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace. And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.” And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.” Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared. ...

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 103 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Luke 6:25 ESV / 97 helpful votes

“Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 92 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.’

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 75 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Luke 8:53 ESV / 61 helpful votes

And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 51 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 38 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

Exodus 32:1-35 ESV / 32 helpful votes

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.” ...

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 32 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

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