97 Bible Verses about Laughter

I've found that God can turn my tears into dancing, replacing my pain with joy so that I can live with a happy heart. Life throws curveballs, no doubt, but I see those challenges as opportunities to lean on God, to truly know Him, and to live confidently in His powerful love.

So, I encourage you to smile. Laugh! Show whatever you're facing that you are more than a conqueror through Christ. Let joy fill you because of what the Lord is going to do in your life. Don't get bogged down in what's happening right now. Your joy will be restored, and you'll be able to laugh about the future because you have hope in the Lord, the One who lifts you up, sustains you, and never leaves your side.

Laugh, even if you're alone. Let your laughter ring out and confuse those things that try to bring you down. Even when things are tough, remember your Creator won't leave you on the ground. He'll lift you up, fight for you, give you victory, and help you break free from pain and fear.

You'll find your mouth filled with laughter, constantly praising His greatness, and your eyes will continue to see His goodness in this life.

“He will yet fill your mouth with laughter And your lips with shouting.

I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of gladness, “What does it do?”

¶He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord mocks them.

“You will laugh at devastation and starvation, And you will not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

“Clubs are regarded as stubble; It laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.

Be miserable and mourn and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter And our tongue with shouts of joy; Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

But You, O Yahweh, laugh at them; You mock all the nations.

And Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

And Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I indeed bear a son, when I am so old?’

Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

Then Sarah denied it however, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

Blessed are those who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are those who cry now, for you shall laugh.

A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance.

I will also laugh at your disaster; I will mock when your dread comes,

Better is vexation than laughter, For when a face is sad a heart may be merry.

So that the righteous will see and fear, And will laugh at him, saying,

Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.

And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

For as the crackling sound of thorn bushes under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool; And this too is vanity.

A glad heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Strength and majesty are her clothing, And she smiles at the future.

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy.

“For you will go out with gladness And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

How blessed are the people for whom this is so; How blessed are the people for whom God is Yahweh!

You have put gladness in my heart, More than when their grain and new wine abound.

He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves with him.

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and have his soul see good in his labor. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to take up his portion and be glad in his labor; this is the gift of God.

Do not be hasty with your mouth or impulsive in your heart to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven but you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few.

For he will not remember much the days of his life because God allows him to occupy himself with the gladness of his heart.

So I laud gladness, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will join with him in his labor throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Go then, eat your bread in gladness and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.

See life with the woman whom you love all the days of your vain life, which He has given to you under the sun—all the days of your vanity; for this is your portion in life and in your labor in which you have labored under the sun.

To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a headdress instead of ashes, The oil of rejoicing instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of Yahweh, that He may show forth His beautiful glory.

“But be joyful and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing And her people for joy.

“I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be joyful in My people; And there will no longer be heard in her The voice of weeping and the voice of crying.

“Yahweh your God is in your midst, A mighty one who will save. He will be joyful over you with gladness; He will be quiet in His love; He will rejoice over you with joyful singing.

These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made complete.

But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, But a good word makes it glad.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him.

Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, you righteous ones; And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

That my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep,

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

A glad heart makes a face look good, But when the heart is pained, the spirit is broken.

All the days of the afflicted are evil, But a good heart has a continual feast.

Bright eyes gladden the heart; A good report puts fat on the bones.

To do justice is pleasure for the righteous, But is ruin to the workers of iniquity.

By transgression an evil man is ensnared, But the righteous sings with joy and is glad.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!

Rejoice always;

Yahweh reigns, let the earth rejoice; Let the many coastlands be glad.

This is the day which Yahweh has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Serve Yahweh with gladness; Come before Him with joyful songs.

The expectation of the righteous is gladness, But the hope of the wicked will perish.

Therefore you will joyously draw water From the springs of salvation.

You shall multiply the nation, You shall make great their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your words became for me joy and gladness in my heart, For I have been called by Your name, O Yahweh God of hosts.

But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God; And let them rejoice with gladness.

For You, O Yahweh, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For their fathers were doing the same things to the prophets.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

And these things we are writing, so that our joy may be made complete.

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

And you also, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.

Let Israel be glad in his Maker; Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King.

And Jesus said to them, “Can the attendants of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

And behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”

And daily devoting themselves with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart,

Great is my boldness toward you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

¶I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; My soul will rejoice in my God, For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a headdress, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“Then the virgin will be glad in the dance, And the young men and the old, together, For I will turn their mourning into joy And will comfort them and give them gladness for their sorrow.

For our heart is glad in Him, Because we trust in His holy name.

¶And my soul shall rejoice in Yahweh; It shall be joyful in His salvation.

I have inherited Your testimonies forever, For they are the joy of my heart.

When Yahweh returned the captive ones of Zion, We were like those who dream.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter And our tongue with shouts of joy; Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

Yahweh has done great things for us; We are glad.

Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will cry and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

So the ransomed of Yahweh will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, And everlasting gladness will be on their heads. They will obtain joy and gladness, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

as sorrowful but always rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

¶When your enemy falls, do not be glad, And when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice;

And David was dancing before Yahweh with all his strength, and David was girded with a linen ephod.

So David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Yahweh with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.

Then it happened as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and cry.

“Then you will see and be radiant, And your heart will tremble and be large with joy; Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, The wealth of the nations will come to you.

Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

For You have been my help, And in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

And the ransomed of Yahweh will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting gladness upon their heads. They will attain delight and gladness, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

“For then you will delight in the Almighty And lift up your face to God.

¶But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You.

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

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