24 Bible Verses about joking

So, is a man who deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Was not, I, in sport?

And shamelessness and foolish talking, or jesting, - which things are beneath you, - but, rather, giving of thanks;

As a madman throwing firebrands, arrows and death,

It is, mere sport to a stupid man, to commit lewdness, but, wisdom, pertaineth to a man of understanding.

But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;

And Lot went forth and spake unto his sons-in - law who were about to take his two daughters and said Arise come forth out of this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city. And it came to pass, that he was as one that laughed, in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries, - In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.

A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock - a righteous man without blame!

But, now, do, ye also, put them all away, - anger, wrath, baseness, defamation, shameful talk out of your mouth:

Do not let thy mouth cause thy flesh to sin, - neither say thou, before the messenger, that it was, a mistake, - wherefore should God be indignant at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

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

But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;

then will I cut off Israel, from the face of the soil, which I have given unto them, and, the house which I have hallowed for my Name, will I suffer to be carried away from before me, - and Israel shall become a byword and a mockery, among all the peoples;

Thou dust make us, A by-word among the nations, - A shaking of the head among the peoples.

the foolish, scoff at guilt, but, between the upright, is good pleasure.

And, he, over kings, will make merry, and, nobles, will be a scorn to him: he, at any fortress, will laugh, once he hath heaped up dust, he hath captured it!

Let, no putrid discourse, out of your mouth, be going forth, but if anything is good - suited to the needful upbuilding, - that it may give benefit unto them that hear;

Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take;

Thou shalt not utter the name of Yahweh thy God for falsehood, for Yahweh will not let him go unpunished who uttereth his name for falsehood.

And it came to pass, at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said - Cry with a loud voice, for, a god, he is, either he hath, a meditation, or an occasion to retire, or he hath, a journey, - peradventure, he, sleepeth, and must be awaked.

All the passers by the way, have plundered him, He hath become a reproach to his neighbours;

While, others, in mockery were saying - With sweet wine, are they drunken!

For, as often as I speak, I make outcry, Violence and wasting, I proclaim, - Yea the word of Yahweh hath become to me a reproach and derision lull the day

Vanity, they are, A handiwork of mockeries, - In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.