What Does the Bible Say About Sense Of Humor?

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.

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

James 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Titus 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

1 Thessalonians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

Ephesians 5:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Romans 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 6:25 ESV / 2 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.

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ...

Ezekiel 23:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord God: “You shall drink your sister's cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;

Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

24 Bible Verses about Sense Of Humor

Psalm 59:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 37:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 6:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 6:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 23:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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24 Bible Verses about Sense Of Humor

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Psalm 59:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 37:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 6:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 6:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 23:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes