24 Bible Verses about joking

And then sayeth he, "I did it but in sport!"

neither filthiness, neither foolish talking, neither jestings, which are not comely: but rather giving of thanks.

Like as one shooteth deadly arrows and darts out of a privy place, even so doth a dissembler with his neighbour.

A fool doth wickedly and maketh but a sport of it; nevertheless it is wisdom for a man to beware of such.

Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock;

And Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which should have married his daughters, and said, "Stand up and get you out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!" But he seemed as though he had mocked, unto his sons-in-law.

The vain craftsmen with their works, that they in their vanity hath made, shall perish one with another in the time of visitation.

Thus, he that calleth upon God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neighbour; the godly and innocent man is laughed to scorn.

But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh for to sin, neither say thou before the angel that it is thy ignorance. For then God will be angry at thy voice, and destroy all the works of thine hands.

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

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:

then I will weed Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have hallowed for my name, I will put out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a fable unto all nations.

Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.

Fools make but a sport of sin; but there is favourable love among the righteous.

They shall mock the kings, and laugh the princes to scorn. They shall not set by any strong hold, for they shall lay ordinance against it, and take it.

Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers.

Let his days be few, and his bishoprick let another take.

"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

And at noon Elijah mocked them, and said, "Call loud, for he is a god: but he is talking, or occupied, or in the way, or haply he sleepeth, that he may awake!"

All they that go by, spoil him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

Others mocked them saying, "They are full of new wine."

because I have now preached long against malicious Tyranny, and showed them of destruction. For the which cause they cast the word of the LORD in my teeth, and take me ever to the worst.

Vain is it; and worthy to be laughed at. And in the time of visitation it shall perish.