27 Bible Verses about humor

Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting -- all of which are out of character -- but rather thanksgiving.

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"

A cheerful heart brings good healing, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's 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.

There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

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 Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

His advisers said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives."

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.'

For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.

So Abraham agreed to Ephron's price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth -- 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.

Two people are better than one, because they can reap more benefit from their labor.

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites -- all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

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

But Pharaoh replied, "You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, 'Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.'

(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion and your frequent illnesses.)

But Hamor made this appeal to them: "My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

"To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.

Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was traveling up the road, some young boys came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, "Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!"

When he turned around and saw them, he called God's judgment down on them. Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

Elijah replied to them, "If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!" Fire from God came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.