What Does the Bible Say About Laughter Is Healing To The Bones?

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

Psalm 126:2 ESV / 20 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 / 19 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Genesis 21:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

James 5:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.

Proverbs 3:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 9 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 / 8 helpful votes

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

Psalm 32:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 66:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.

Proverbs 18:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?

Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 5 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 ...

3 John 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Philippians 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Romans 12:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 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.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

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.

Proverbs 3:7-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

Psalm 16:8-11 ESV / 5 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.

Psalm 6:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 4:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 4 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,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

2 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Romans 8:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Hosea 6:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

Ecclesiastes 7:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 4 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; ...

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 3 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.

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 4:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

Psalm 59:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Job 9:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

James 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.

Philippians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

2 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Romans 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Luke 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:

Matthew 21:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”

Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord, saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? ...

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Proverbs 16:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

Psalm 37:12-13 ESV / 2 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.

Psalm 32:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

73 Bible Verses about Laughter Is Healing To The Bones

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