49 Bible Verses about Fun

So I recommend enjoyment. For there [is] nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

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

Look at their sitting and their standing, I [am] their mocking song.

And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there.

In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking [him], saying,

{Otherwise} [after] he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish [it], all who see [it] will begin to ridicule him,

All [who] see me mock me. They open wide [their] lips; they shake [the] head, [saying]:

But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy.

I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic comes [upon] you.

At whom do you make fun? At whom do you {open} [your] mouth [and] {stick out} [your] tongue? [Are] you not children of transgression, offspring of deception,

The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.

But others jeered [and] said, "They are full of sweet new wine!"

And the men who were guarding him began to mock him [while] they beat [him],

He who mocks the poor insults him who made him; he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

Then he went up from there [to] Bethel; as he [was] going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!"

so [is] a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"

Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he took (because he took a Cushite wife);

Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, and do not curse the rich even in your own bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice; a winged messenger may repeat your words.

If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside.

Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers,

For there is no man in his home; he has gone on a {long journey}.

above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these [things], and they ridiculed him.

You shall not curse [the] deaf, and you shall not put a stumbling block {before} a blind person, but you shall revere your God; I [am] Yahweh.

Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.

I said of laughter, "[It is] folly!" and of pleasure, "{What does it accomplish?}"

"And I will not let you hear [any] longer the insult of the nations, and [the] disgrace of [the] peoples you will not bear [any] longer; you [yourself] will not cause your nation to stumble," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.'"

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him either in this age or in the coming one!

Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me [the] taunt of [the] fool.

The one who eats must not despise the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, because God has accepted him.

It happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, "Call out with a loud voice, for he [is] a god! Perhaps he is meditating, or {is using the bathroom}, or [is] on a journey. Perhaps he [is] asleep and must wake up!"

for which reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.

"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

And it will be [an] object of taunting and [an] object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that [are] around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken!

Therefore prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Because indeed} {when you were desolate}, then they crushed you from all around, so that you became a possession to the remainder of the nations, and you became {a byword and object of slander for the people}."

For he will be handed over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and mistreated and spit on,

(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)

then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him, and they led him out so that they could crucify him.

For [it is] not an enemy [that] taunts me, or I could bear [it]. [It is not] one who hates me [that] magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.

he said, "Go away, because the girl is not dead, but is sleeping." And they ridiculed him.

And Herod with his soldiers also treated him with contempt, and [after] mocking [him] [and] dressing [him] [in] glistening clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.