49 Bible Verses about Fun

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.

And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,

For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,

I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

But others, making sport of them, said, They are full of new wine.

And the men in whose hands Jesus was, made sport of him and gave him blows.

Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!

So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.

If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;

For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?

And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.

And whoever says a word against the Son of man, will have forgiveness; but whoever says a word against the Holy Spirit, will not have forgiveness in this life or in that which is to come.

Let no one make little of you because you are young, but be an example to the church in word, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in holy living.

Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.

Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.

But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations round about you, when I give effect to my judging among you in wrath and in passion and in burning protests: I the Lord have said it:

For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:

For he will be given up to the Gentiles, and will be made sport of and put to shame:

For even his brothers had no belief in him.

And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

He said, Make room; for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they were laughing at him.

And Herod, with the men of his army, put shame on him and made sport of him, and dressing him in shining robes, he sent him back to Pilate.