24 Bible Verses about joking
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also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief, and [so is] wisdom to a man of understanding.
And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place, for LORD will destroy the city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as a man jesting.
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.
Do not allow thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say thou before the [heavenly] agent, that is was an error. Why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,
then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.
Yea, he scoffs at kings, and rulers are a derision to him. He derides every stronghold, for he heaps up dust, and takes it.
Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.
Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is meditating, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.
For as often as I speak, I cry out. I cry, Violence and destruction! Because the word of LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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