49 Bible Verses about Fun

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

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.

In like manner also the chief priests mocking him , with the scribes and elders, said,

Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head,'saying ,

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine.

And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and beat him.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; And he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.

So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, And saith, Am not I in sport?

All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet, That maketh signs with his fingers;

For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; And'so is wisdom to a man of understanding.

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

neither will I let thee hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nation to stumble any more, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.

For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

For he shall be delivered up unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon:

For even his brethren did not believe on him.

And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the purple, and put on him his garments. And they lead him out to crucify him.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

he said, Give place: for the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to Pilate.