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.

Till he shall fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with shouts of joy.

To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this?

He dwelling in the heavens shall laugh: Jehovah shall deride to them.

At desolation and at hunger thou shalt laugh, and from the beasts of the earth thou shalt not fear.

The bludgeon was reckoned to him for stubble: and he will laugh at the shaking of the javelin.

Jehovah shall laugh at him: for he saw that his day will come.

Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.

Then our mouth will be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then shall they say among the nations, Jehovah magnified to do with those.

And thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt deride at all the nations.

And Sarah will laugh within her, saying, After it has not been to me till now, and my lord, being old.And Jehovah will say to Abraham, For what did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall truly even I bring forth, and I have become old?Shall the word of Jehovah be difficult, at the appointed time? I will return to thee, according to the time of life, and a son to Sarah.And Sarah will deny, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he will say, Nay, for thou didst laugh.

Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

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

Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;

Good is grief above laughter: for in the illness of the face the heart shall be good.

And the just shall see and fear, and laugh at him.

Also in laughter the heart shall have pain, and its latter state of joy, grief.

And Sarah will say, God made me laugh; all hearing will laugh with me.

For as the voice of thorns under the pot, so the laughter of the foolish one. Also this is vanity.

A joyful heart shall make good healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry up the bones.

Strength and ornament her clothing; and she will laugh to the last day.

Thou wilt cause me to know the way of life: abundance of joys with thy face; favors in thy right hand forever.

They sowing in tears shall reap in rejoicing.

For with joy shall ye go forth, and in peace shall ye be led forth; the mountains and hills shall break forth before you into shouting, and all the trees of the field shall clap the hand.

Happy the people thus and thus to him: happy the people Jehovah his God.

Thou gavest gladness in my heart, from the time their grain and their new wine increased.

He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.

Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.

Also every man which God gave to him wealth and riches, and permitted him to eat from it, and to lift up his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this the gift of God himself.For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God humbles him in the gladness of his heart.

And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.

Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.In all time thy garments shall be white; and ointment shall not be wanting upon thy head.See life with the wife which thou didst love all the days of the life of thy vanity which he gave to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for this thy portion in life, and in thy labor which thou laborest under the sun.

To set to those mourning in Zion, to give to them adorning instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the vestment of praise for the spirit of faintness; and it shall be called to them, The mighty trees of justice of the planting of Jehovah, to be honored.

But be ye glad and rejoice even forever, for what I create: for behold me creating Jerusalem a joy, and her people a rejoicing.And I rejoiced in Jerusalem, and was glad in my people; and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, and the voice of crying.

Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee: the strong one will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will be silent in his love, he will exult over thee with rejoicing.

These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed.

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that I might have my joy completed in them.

Turn back to me the joy of thy salvation, and thy willing spirit shall uphold me.

Fear in the heart of a man will bow it down: and a good word will gladden it

Jehovah my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusted, and I was helped: and my heart will exult, and from my song will I praise him.

Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye just: and shout for joy, all ye upright of heart.

Thou didst turn my wailing to dancing to me: thou didst loose my sackcloth, and thou wilt gird me with gladness;So that glory shall play on the harp to thee, and shall not be silent O Jehovah my God, I will praise thee forever.

Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you.

And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant: thou west faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord.

To rejoice with the rejoicing, and weep with the weeping.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

A heart of joy will do the face good: and by pains of heart the spirit was dejected.

All the days of the afflicted are evil: and the good of heart drinking always.

From the light of the eyes the heart will rejoice: and a good report will fatten the bones.

Joy to the just one to do judgment: and destruction to those working iniquity.

In the transgression of an evil man is a snare: and the just one shall rejoice and be glad:

Rejoice in the Lord always: again say I, Do ye rejoice.

Rejoice always.

Jehovah reigned, the earth shall exult: the many islands shall be glad.

This the day Jehovah made, we will rejoice and be glad in it

Serve ye Jehovah with gladness: come before him with rejoicing.

The hope of the just is gladness: and the expectation of the unjust shall perish.

Ye drew water with gladness from the fountains of salvation.

Thou didst multiply the nation, thou didst not increase the joy: they rejoiced before thee according to the joy in harvest as they will exalt in their dividing the spoil.

Thy words were found, and eating them; and thy word will be to me for the gladness and for the joy of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, Jehovah the God of armies.

And the just shall be glad; they shall rejoice before God, and they shall rejoice with gladness.

For thou didst gladden me, O Jehovah, by thy work: I will rejoice in the works of thy hands.

I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.

So, I say to you, joy is in heaven before the messengers of God for one sinful changing the mind.

Rejoice in that day, and skip: for, behold, your reward much in heaven: for according to these did their fathers to the prophets.

And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:

And these we write to you, that your joy might be filled up.

But if also I am poured out upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice together with you all.And do ye also rejoice at the same, and rejoice together with me.

Israel shall rejoice in him making him: the sons of Zion shall exult in their king.

And Jesus said to them, The sons of the nuptial chamber cannot mourn inasmuch as the bridegroom is with them; but the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast.

And, behold, they brought him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Take courage, child thy sins are let go to thee.

And joy shall be to thee, and gladness: and many shall rejoice at his birth.

But in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, that your names were written in the heavens.

And in the day persevering unanimously in the temple, and breaking bread in the house, they partook of food with lively joy and simplicity of heart,

Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure.

Rejoicing, I will rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall exult in my God, for he put upon me the garments of salvation, and he clothed me with a robe of justice, as a bridegroom will be a priest with a turban, and as a bride will be adorned with her dress.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old men together: and I turned their mourning to joy, and I comforted them and caused them to rejoice from their sorrow.

For in him our heart shall rejoice, for in his holy name we trusted.

And my soul shall rejoice in Jehovah: it shall be glad in his salvation.

I inherited thy testimonies forever: for they are the joy of my heart.

Song of ascensions. In Jehovah turning back the returning of we were as those dreaming.Then our mouth will be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then shall they say among the nations, Jehovah magnified to do with those.Jehovah magnified to do with us; we were made glad.

Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy.

Words of pleasantness an, honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.

And the redeemed of Jehovah shall turn back, and they came to Zion with shouting and eternal joy upon their head: and gladness and joy shall they attain; sorrow and sighing fled.

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

As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult:

And David leaping with all strength before Jehovah: and David was girded with a linen ephod.And David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Jehovah with shouts and with the voice of the trumpet,And the ark of Jehovah was coming to the city of David, and Michal, Saul's daughter, looked forth without the window, and she will see king David being strengthened and leaping before Jehovah, and she will despise him in her heart.

Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.

Then thou shalt see and flow together, and thy heart shall fear and be enlarged; for the multitude of the sea shall turn to thee, the strength of the nations shall come to thee.

And he will say to them, Go ye; eat fatnesses, and drink sweetnesses, and send portions to him for whom nothing was prepared: for the day is holy to our Lord: and ye shall not grieve, for the joy of Jehovah this is your strength.

For thou wert a help to me, and in the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice.

And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

And the ransomed of Jehovah shall turn back and come to Zion with a shout of joy and eternal joy upon their heads: and they shall attain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

For then upon the Almighty shalt thou delight thyself, and thou shalt lift up thy face to God.

And all they putting trust in thee shall rejoice forever: they shall shout for joy, and thou wilt cover over them: and they loving thy name shall exult in thee.

Speaking to yourselves on harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, singing and playing on the harp in your heart to the Lord;Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father;

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