25 Bible Verses about Laughter
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Then Sarah said, God has made me to laugh so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Ain Strength and glory is her clothing, and she shall laugh in the last day.
he said unto them, Give place, for the maid is not dead, but sleeps. And they laughed him to scorn.
And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel and those that were with him and entered in where the damsel was lying.
And he shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto him, he shall deride every fortress and shall heap dust and take it.
He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
The Lord shall laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the Gentiles in derision.
Then our mouth shall be filled with laughter and our tongue with singing; then they shall say among the Gentiles, The LORD has done great things with them.
Blessed are those that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed are those that weep now, for ye shall laugh.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth;
In their heat I will place their feasts before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.
Even in laughter, the scorner has pain in his heart, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.
But when Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the slave, the Ammonite, and Geshem, the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said, What is this thing that ye do? Will ye rebel against the king?
So the posts passed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? Then the LORD said unto Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child when I am old? Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.read more.
Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, No, but thou didst laugh.
All those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, Turn him over to the LORD, let him deliver him, let him save him, seeing he delighted in him.
From Thematic Bible
Laughter » Attributed to God
The Lord shall laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the Gentiles in derision.
Laughter » A time for
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;