24 Bible Verses about joking

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

And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,

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

And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

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.

Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.

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.

Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

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.

All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

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

For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.