Bible Verses About Humor

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

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

The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!