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 still fill your mouth with joy, your lips with a victorious shout.

Merriment, I thought, is madness; pleasure, of no use at all.

The one who rules in heaven laughs; my Lord makes fun of them.

You will laugh at destruction and hunger; you won’t be afraid of wild beasts;

He treats a club like straw; he laughs at the lance’s rattle.

But my Lord just laughs at them because he knows that their day is coming.

Cry out in sorrow, mourn, and weep! Let your laughter become mourning and your joy become sadness.

Our mouths were suddenly filled with laughter; our tongues were filled with joyful shouts. It was even said, at that time, among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them!”

But you, LORD, laugh at them. You mock all the nations.

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, I’m no longer able to have children and my husband’s old.The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Me give birth? At my age?’Is anything too difficult for the LORD? When I return to you about this time next year, Sarah will have a son.”Sarah lied and said, “I didn’t laugh,” because she was frightened. But he said, “No, you laughed.”

Happy are you who hunger now, because you will be satisfied. Happy are you who weep now, because you will laugh.

a time for crying and a time for laughing, a time for mourning and a time for dancing,

So I’ll laugh at your disaster; I’ll make fun of you when dread comes over you,

Aggravation is better than merriment because a sad face may lead to a glad heart.

The righteous will see and be in awe; they will laugh at those people:

The heart feels pain even in laughter, and in the end, joy turns to sorrow.

Sarah said, “God has given me laughter. Everyone who hears about it will laugh with me.”

because the fool’s merriment is like nettles crackling under a kettle. That too is pointless.

A joyful heart helps healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Strength and honor are her clothing; she is confident about the future.

You teach me the way of life. In your presence is total celebration. Beautiful things are always in your right hand.

Let those who plant with tears reap the harvest with joyful shouts.

Yes, you will go out with celebration, and you will be brought back in peace. Even the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you; all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

The people who have it like this are truly happy! The people whose God is the LORD are truly happy!

But you have filled my heart with more joy than when their wheat and wine are everywhere!

Let those who go out, crying and carrying their seed, come home with joyful shouts, carrying bales of grain!

There’s nothing better for human beings than to eat, drink, and experience pleasure in their hard work. I also saw that this is from God’s hand—

Also, whenever God gives people wealth and riches and enables them to enjoy it, to accept their place in the world and to find pleasure in their hard work—all this is God’s gift.Indeed, people shouldn’t brood too much over the days of their lives because God gives an answer in their hearts’ joy.

So I commend enjoyment because there’s nothing better for people to do under the sun but to eat, drink, and be glad. This is what will accompany them in their hard work, during the lifetime that God gives under the sun.

Go, eat your food joyfully and drink your wine happily because God has already accepted what you do.Let your garments always be white; don’t run short of oil for your head.Enjoy life with your dearly loved spouse all the days of your pointless life that God gives you under the sun—all the days of your pointless life!—because that’s your part to play in this life and in your hard work under the sun.

to provide for Zion’s mourners, to give them a crown in place of ashes, oil of joy in place of mourning, a mantle of praise in place of discouragement. They will be called Oaks of Righteousness, planted by the LORD to glorify himself.

Be glad and rejoice forever in what I’m creating, because I’m creating Jerusalem as a joy and her people as a source of gladness.I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad about my people. No one will ever hear the sound of weeping or crying in it again.

The LORD your God is in your midst—a warrior bringing victory. He will create calm with his love; he will rejoice over you with singing.

I have said these things to you so that my joy will be in you and your joy will be complete.

Up to now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive so that your joy will be complete.

Now I’m coming to you and I say these things while I’m in the world so that they can share completely in my joy.

Return the joy of your salvation to me and sustain me with a willing spirit.

Anxiety leads to depression, but a good word encourages.

The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him. I was helped, my heart rejoiced, and I thank him with my song.

You who are righteous, rejoice in the LORD and be glad! All you whose hearts are right, sing out in joy!

You changed my mourning into dancing. You took off my funeral clothes and dressed me up in joyso that my whole being might sing praises to you and never stop. LORD, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

Be full of joy and be glad, because you have a great reward in heaven. In the same way, people harassed the prophets who came before you.

“His master replied, ‘Excellent! You are a good and faithful servant! You’ve been faithful over a little. I’ll put you in charge of much. Come, celebrate with me.’

Be happy with those who are happy, and cry with those who are crying.

God’s kingdom isn’t about eating food and drinking but about righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

A joyful heart brightens one’s face, but a troubled heart breaks the spirit.

All the days of the needy are hard, but a happy heart has a continual feast.

Bright eyes give joy to the heart; good news strengthens the bones.

Acting justly is a joy to the righteous, but dreaded by those who do evil.

The wicked are snared by their own sin; the righteous sing and rejoice.

Be glad in the Lord always! Again I say, be glad!

Rejoice always.

The LORD rules! Let the earth rejoice! Let all the islands celebrate!

This is the day the LORD acted; we will rejoice and celebrate in it!

Serve the LORD with celebration! Come before him with shouts of joy!

The expectations of the righteous result in joy, but the hopes of the wicked will perish.

You will draw water with joy from the springs of salvation.

You have made the nation great; you have increased its joy. They rejoiced before you as with joy at the harvest, as those who divide plunder rejoice.

When your words turned up, I feasted on them; and they became my joy, the delight of my heart, because I belong to you, LORD God of heavenly forces.

But let the righteous be glad and celebrate before God. Let them rejoice with gladness!

because you’ve made me happy, LORD, by your acts. I sing with joy because of your handiwork.

In the same way, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who changes both heart and life than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to change their hearts and lives.

In the same way, I tell you, joy breaks out in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who changes both heart and life.”

Rejoice when that happens! Leap for joy because you have a great reward in heaven. Their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in faith so that you overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Although you’ve never seen him, you love him. Even though you don’t see him now, you trust him and so rejoice with a glorious joy that is too much for words.

We are writing these things so that our joy can be complete.

But even if I am poured out like a drink offering upon the altar of service for your faith, I am glad. I’m glad with all of you.You should be glad about this in the same way. Be glad with me!

Let Israel celebrate its maker; let Zion’s children rejoice in their king!

Jesus responded, “The wedding guests can’t mourn while the groom is still with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they’ll fast.

People brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a cot. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man who was paralyzed, “Be encouraged, my child, your sins are forgiven.”

He will be a joy and delight to you, and many people will rejoice at his birth,

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice because the spirits submit to you. Rejoice instead that your names are written in heaven.”

Every day, they met together in the temple and ate in their homes. They shared food with gladness and simplicity.

I have every confidence in you. I’m terribly proud of you. I’m filled with encouragement. I’m overwhelmed with happiness while in the middle of our problems.

I surely rejoice in the LORD; my heart is joyful because of my God, because he has clothed me with clothes of victory, wrapped me in a robe of righteousness like a bridegroom in a priestly crown, and like a bride adorned in jewelry.

Then the young women will dance for joy; the young and old men will join in. I will turn their mourning into laughter and their sadness into joy; I will comfort them.

Our heart rejoices in God because we trust his holy name.

But I will rejoice in the LORD; I will celebrate his salvation.

Your laws are my possession forever because they are my heart’s joy.

When the LORD changed Zion’s circumstances for the better, it was like we had been dreaming.Our mouths were suddenly filled with laughter; our tongues were filled with joyful shouts. It was even said, at that time, among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them!”Yes, the LORD has done great things for us, and we are overjoyed.

I assure you that you will cry and lament, and the world will be happy. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.

Pleasant words are flowing honey, sweet to the taste and healing to the bones.

Then let those ransomed by the LORD return and come to Zion with singing and with everlasting joy upon their heads. Let happiness and joy overwhelm them; let grief and groaning flee.

Because of the abundant presence of the Holy Spirit in their lives, the disciples were overflowing with happiness.

as going through pain but always happy, as poor but making many rich, and as having nothing but owning everything.

When your enemies fall, don’t rejoice. When they stumble, don’t let your heart be glad,

David, dressed in a linen priestly vest, danced with all his strength before the LORD.This is how David and the entire house of Israel brought up the LORD’s chest with shouts and trumpet blasts.As the LORD’s chest entered David’s City, Saul’s daughter Michal was watching from a window. She saw King David jumping and dancing before the LORD, and she lost all respect for him.

How terrible for you who have plenty now, because you will be hungry. How terrible for you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep.

Then you will see and be radiant; your heart will tremble and open wide, because the sea’s abundance will be turned over to you; the nations’ wealth will come to you.

“Go, eat rich food, and drink something sweet,” he said to them, “and send portions of this to any who have nothing ready! This day is holy to our LORD. Don’t be sad, because the joy from the LORD is your strength!”

because you’ve been a help to me and I shout for joy in the protection of your wings.

Then the peace of God that exceeds all understanding will keep your hearts and minds safe in Christ Jesus.

The LORD’s ransomed ones will return and enter Zion with singing, with everlasting joy upon their heads. Happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and groaning will flee away.

Then you will take pleasure in the Almighty; lift up your face to God.

But let all who take refuge in you celebrate. Let them sing out loud forever! Protect them so that all who love your name can rejoice in you.

speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; sing and make music to the Lord in your hearts;always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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