27 Bible Verses about humor

and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.

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

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

And you are going to hear about wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

And there were also women observing from a distance, among whom [were] Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and Joses, and Salome,

Then the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor speaking deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human [wisdom], and the weakness of God [is] stronger than human [strength].

Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Then his servants said to him, "Please now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings of mercy. Let us now put sackcloth on around our waists and ropes on our heads. Then let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps {he will let you live}."

Nevertheless, it is necessary [for] me to be on the way today and tomorrow and on the next [day], because it is not possible [for] a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.

For what credit [is it] if, [when you] sin and are beaten [for it], you endure? But if you endure [when you] do good and suffer [for it], this [finds] favor with God.

Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.

Two [are] better than the one, for they enjoy a better reward for their toil.

And they struck Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, {all strong and able men}; no one escaped.

And he answered [and] said, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw [it] to the dogs!"

And he said, "You [are] lazy, lazy! Therefore you [are] saying, 'Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh.'

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses.)

And Hamor spoke with them saying, "Shechem my son {is in love with} your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

Then Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan [were] evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,

Now [when] the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled at the same [place].

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!"

When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them.

And immediately [something] like scales fell from his eyes and he regained [his] sight and got up [and] was baptized,

Then Elijah answered and said to them, "If I [am] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!" Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.