49 Bible Verses about Fun

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

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

But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.

So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;

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

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

But others mocking said, "They are filled with new wine."

Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat him.

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;

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

winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.

You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?"

And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool!

Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, "Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened."

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,

"But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes--I am the LORD; I have spoken--

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,

For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.

For not even his brothers believed in him.

And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all 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 to crucify him.

For it is not an enemy who taunts me-- then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me-- then I could hide from him.

he said, "Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him.

And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, arraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.