27 Bible Verses about humor

Let there be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse [obscene or vulgar] joking, because such things are not appropriate [for believers]; but instead speak of your thankfulness [to God].

So is the man who deceives his neighbor (acquaintance, friend)
And then says, “Was I not joking?”

A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

You will continually hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end [of the age].

then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] has eternal life [that is, now possesses it], and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.

Now some women also were watching from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joses, and Salome.

Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, because Shechem had defiled and disgraced their sister Dinah.

[This is] because the foolishness of God [is not foolishness at all and] is wiser than men [far beyond human comprehension], and the weakness of God is stronger than men [far beyond the limits of human effort].

So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

But his servants said to him, “We have heard that the kings of the house (royal line) of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth around our loins and ropes on our necks [as symbols of submission], and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”

Nevertheless I must travel on today and tomorrow and the day after that—for it cannot be that a prophet would die outside of Jerusalem.

After all, what kind of credit is there if, when you do wrong and are punished for it, you endure it patiently? But if when you do what is right and patiently bear [undeserved] suffering, this finds favor with God.

So Abraham listened to Ephron [and agreed to his terms]; and he weighed out for Ephron the [amount of] silver which he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

Two are better than one because they have a more satisfying return for their labor;

They struck down at that time about ten thousand Moabite men, all strong, courageous men; not a man escaped.

And He replied, “It is not good (appropriate, fair) to take the children’s bread and throw it to the pet dogs.”

But Pharaoh said, “You are lazy, very lazy and idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

No longer continue drinking [only] water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

But Hamor conferred with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem [deeply] longs for your daughter [and sister]. Please give her to him as his wife.

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market places, who call to the others,

So Esau realized that [his two wives] the daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac his father;

Now when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced (muzzled) the Sadducees, they gathered together.

Then Elisha went up from Jericho to Bethel. On the way, young boys came out of the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

When he turned around and looked at them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore to pieces forty-two of the boys.

Immediately something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized;

Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty [fighting men].” And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.