Top 25 Bible Verses About Humor And Laughter (NIV)

²² A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

² Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

²¹ He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

⁶ Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."

¹³ A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.

¹³ Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief.

⁴ The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

⁴ Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.

²¹ Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

¹³ but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.

¹¹ You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

¹¹ Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!

⁸ I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. ⁹ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, ¹⁰ because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. ¹¹ You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

⁷ You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

²⁵ She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.

¹⁷ The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."

¹³ Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise.

⁶ Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools. This too is meaningless.

⁶ Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

⁸ But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you scoff at all those nations.

¹ Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. ² But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. ³ He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. ⁴ Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. ⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. ⁶ For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

¹⁷ Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

⁹ Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.