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Bible Verses about Humor And Laughter


Proverbs 17:22 ESV /
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.


Psalm 126:2 ESV /
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 /
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.


Psalm 2:4 ESV /
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

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Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

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Psalm 32:11 ESV /
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Proverbs 15:13 ESV /
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.


Genesis 21:6 ESV /
And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.”


Proverbs 14:13 ESV /
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.


Psalm 4:7 ESV /
You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

Psalm 37:13 ESV /
But the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.


Psalm 16:11 ESV /
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Genesis 17:17 ESV /
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?”


Ecclesiastes 7:3 ESV /
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.


1 Corinthians 2:14-15 ESV /
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.


Ephesians 5:4 ESV /
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.


Psalm 16:8-11 ESV /
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.


Job 12:4 ESV /
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.


Psalm 47:1 ESV /
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!


Colossians 4:6 ESV /
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.


Zephaniah 3:17 ESV /
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.


Psalm 43:4 ESV /
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.


Philippians 4:4 ESV /
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.


Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV /
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.


Ecclesiastes 2:2 ESV /
I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”



James 4:9 ESV
Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

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