24 Bible Verses about joking

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

"And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up! Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

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

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.

At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

May his days be few; may another take his office!

"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, "Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened."

All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

But others mocking said, "They are filled with new wine."

For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!" For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.