49 Bible Verses about Fun

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

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

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

You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.

Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."

The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!"

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

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

Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don't curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

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

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

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

"'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Go your way -- eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.

I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh.

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.

Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened."

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.