27 Bible Verses about humor

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

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

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

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

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

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

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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

And his servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life."

Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.'

For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.

Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that 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 good reward for their toil.

And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.

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

But he said, "You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,

So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

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!"

And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;

But Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, 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.