24 Bible Verses about joking

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Proverbs 26:18

Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,

Job 30:9

"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.

Genesis 19:14

Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law [who were] taking his daughters and said, "Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh [is going] to destroy the city!" But {it seemed like a joke} in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

Jeremiah 10:15

They [are] vanity, a work of mockery, at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.

Colossians 3:8

But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

Ecclesiastes 5:6

Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it [was] a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands?

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.

Psalm 44:14

You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.

Proverbs 14:9

Fools mock [the] guilt offering, but among the upright, it is favorable.

Habakkuk 1:10

And they themselves scoff at kings and rulers [are] a joke to them. They laugh at every fortification, and they heap up earth and take it.

Psalm 109:8

Let his days be few; let another take his office.

1 Kings 18:27

It happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, "Call out with a loud voice, for he [is] a god! Perhaps he is meditating, or {is using the bathroom}, or [is] on a journey. Perhaps he [is] asleep and must wake up!"

Psalm 89:41

All passing along [the] road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors.

Jeremiah 20:8

For {as often as} I speak, I must cry out violence and destruction. I must shout, for the word of Yahweh has become for me a disgrace and derision all day [long].

Jeremiah 51:18

They [are] worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish.

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