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 thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouts of joy.

I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?

He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth;

He counts any weapon as stubble; he laughs at the shaking of a spear.

The Lord shall laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.

Then our mouth shall be filled with laughter and our tongue with singing; then they shall say among the Gentiles, The Lord has done great things with them.

¶ But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the Gentiles in derision.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?Then the Lord said unto Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child when I am old?Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, No, but thou didst laugh.

Blessed are those that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed are those that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made whole.

¶ The righteous also shall see and fear and shall laugh at him, saying:

¶ Even in laughter, the scorner has pain in his heart, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

Then Sarah said, God has made me to laugh so that all that hear will laugh with me.

The laughter of the fool is as the crackling of thorns under a pot, and this also (the laughter or prosperity of the fool) is vanity.

¶ A joyful heart shall do good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Strength and glory is her clothing, and she shall laugh in the last day.

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; in thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Those that sow with tears shall reap with joy.

For ye shall go out with joy, and be returned with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Blessed is that people, that is in such a case; yea, blessed is that people, whose God is the Lord.

Thou hast put gladness in my heart in the time that their grain and their wine multiplied.

He that goes forth and weeps, bearing the precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. I also have seen that this is from the hand of God.

Likewise, unto every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, he has also given him power to eat thereof and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.Do not be rash with thy mouth and do not let thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God, for God is in heaven and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.To such a one, God will remove the concerns common to others, for God shall answer him with joy from his heart.

Therefore I commended joy because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry, for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

Go, eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a joyful heart that thy works might be acceptable unto God.Thy garments shall always be white, and thy head shall never lack ointment.Live joyfully with the wife whom thou dost love all the days which thou art to live in this lake of vanity, which are given unto thee; all the days of thy vanity under the sun: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour in which thou dost work under the sun.

to order in Zion those that mourn, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

But ye shall be glad and rejoice from age to age in the things which I shall create; for, behold, I create joy unto Jerusalem and unto her people joy.And I will be glad with Jerusalem and rejoice with my people: and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.

These things I have spoken unto you that my joy may abide in you and that your joy might be fulfilled.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.

And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Restore unto me the joy of thy saving health, and thy spirit of liberty shall uphold me.

¶ Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song I will praise him.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness;to the end that I may sing glory unto thee and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful slave; thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep.

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

¶ A joyful heart makes a beautiful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is abated.

¶ All the days of the poor are difficult, but he that is of a good heart has a continual feast.

¶ The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and a good report makes the bones fat.

¶ It is joy to the just to do judgment, but it shall be destruction to the workers of iniquity.

¶ In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare, but the righteous shall sing and rejoice.

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice.

¶ Always rejoice.

¶ The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.

This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with joy.

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of saving health.

As thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast not increased the joy. They shall rejoice before thee as they rejoice in the harvest and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, O Lord God of the hosts.

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall rejoice before God; they shall dance with joy.

For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad with thy work; I will delight in the works of thy hands.

I say unto you that likewise there shall be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repents than over ninety-nine just persons, who need no repentance.

Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.

Rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy; for, behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers treated the prophets in the same manner.

¶ And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.

whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though at present ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;

And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be fulfilled.

And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.For the same cause ye also have joy and rejoice with me.

Let Israel rejoice with his Maker; let the sons of Zion be joyful with their King.

And Jesus said unto them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

And, behold, they brought him a paralyzed man, lying on a bed; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said unto the paralyzed man, Trust, son; thy sins are forgiven thee.

And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

Notwithstanding, rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food together with gladness and singleness of heart,

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you; I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

¶ I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of saving health; he has surrounded me with the robe of righteousness; as a bridegroom he has arrayed me, and as a bride made up of his jewels.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Therefore our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in the name of his holiness.

And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord; it shall rejoice in his saving health.

¶ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¶ When the Lord shall turn again the captivity of Zion, we shall be like those that dream.Then our mouth shall be filled with laughter and our tongue with singing; then they shall say among the Gentiles, The Lord has done great things with them.The Lord has done great things with us, of which we shall be glad.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, and the world shall rejoice; but even though ye shall be sorrowful, your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

¶ Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and medicine to the bones.

Therefore the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head; they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

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

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

¶ Do not rejoice when thy enemy falls, and do not let thy heart be glad when he stumbles

And David danced before the Lord with all his might, and David was girded with a linen ephod.So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the shofar.And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Then thou shall see, and thou shall shine, and thine heart shall marvel, and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the strength of the Gentiles shall have come unto thee.

Then he said unto them, Go, eat the fat, and drink sweet wine, and send portions unto those who have nothing prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord, and not sad; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

¶ Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall retain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

And all those that put their trust in thee shall rejoice: they shall ever be in jubilee, for thou shalt cover them; and all that love thy name shall be joyful in thee.

speaking among yourselves with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and praising the Lord in your hearts,and walk in charity even as the Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.giving thanks always for all things unto the God and Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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