24 Bible Verses about joking

so is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not in sport?

also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.

As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief, and [so is] wisdom to a man of understanding.

And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.

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?

For my yoke is befitting, and my burden is light.

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.

Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the 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.

Let his days be few, [and] let another take his office.

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.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

But others, mocking said, They are filled of wine.

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.