24 Bible Verses about Laughter

And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.

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

And they were laughing at him. But he, having sent them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.

And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.

When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you: strong in his wealth.

He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.

Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

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

Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.

Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old? And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child? Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.read more.
Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.

I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say, He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.