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 fills your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.

I said of laughter, It is senseless: and of gladness, What does it do?

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

At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Darts are counted 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 was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD has done great things for them.

But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have become old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I surely bear a child, being old?Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but you did laugh.

Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to leap for joy;

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

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

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

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that gladness is sorrow.

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

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fulness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth 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.

Happy is that people, that is in such a state: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.

He that goes forth and weeps, bearing 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 labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answers him in the joy of his heart.

Then I recommended cheerfulness, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall remain with him of his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you do under the sun.

To appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give to 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 be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

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

Until now you have asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

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

Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.

Sorrow 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 will I praise him.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

You have turned for me my mourning into singing: you have put off my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness;To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you for ever.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

His lord said to him, Well done, you good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of your lord.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

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

A merry heart makes a cheerful appearance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry 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 justice: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous sings and rejoices.

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

Rejoice at all times.

The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of islands be glad for it.

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 singing.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.

You multiplied the nation, and did not increase the joy: but now they rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the works of your hands.

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

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

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

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

Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

Yes, and if I am offered in the sacrifice and service of your faith, I have joy, and rejoice with you all.For the same reason also do you have joy, and rejoice with me.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

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

And, behold, they brought to him a man sick from paralysis, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said to the man sick from paralysis; Son, be of good cheer; your sins be forgiven you.

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

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

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

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying over you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly 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 salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her 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.

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

And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

Your testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

​When the LORD turned back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream.Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD has done great things for them.The LORD has done great things for us; for which we are glad.

Truly, truly, I say to you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

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

Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: 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 your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:

And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed 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 trumpet.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 to you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

Then you shall see, and gather together, and your heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the strength of the Gentiles shall come to you.

Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink sweet drinks, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your 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 upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face unto God.

But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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