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.

until He fills your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.

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

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; Jehovah shall mock at them.

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

Darts are counted as straw; he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.

Jehovah laughs 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 was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing; then they said among the nations, Jehovah has done great things with them.

But You, O Jehovah, shall laugh at them; You will mock at all the nations.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I, who am old, truly bear a child?Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return again, 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, No, but you did laugh.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you 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 trouble; I will mock when your fear comes;

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

And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that joy is heaviness.

And Sarah said, God has made me laugh, so that all who 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 the bones.

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

You will make Me know the way of life; in Your presence is fullness of joys. At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

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

Blessed are the peoples who are so; blessed are the peoples to whom Jehovah is their God.

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

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

Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Also every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it 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 praised gladness, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be glad; for that shall go with him of his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now is pleased with your works.Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.Look on life 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 share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and I will rejoice in My people; and the voice of weeping will no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying be heard in her.

Jehovah your God is mighty in your midst; He will save, He will rejoice over you with joy; He is silent in His love; He rejoices over you with joyful shout.

I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.

Before now you have asked nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

And now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world that they might have My joy fulfilled in them.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

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

Jehovah 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 Jehovah, and rejoice, you righteous; and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth, and have clothed me with gladness,so that my glory may sing praise to You, and not be silent. O Jehovah my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

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

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

Rejoice with rejoicing ones, and weep with weeping ones;

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

A merry heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

All the days of the afflicted are evil, but gladness of heart is a continual feast.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart; a good report makes the bones fat.

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

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

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, Rejoice!

Rejoice evermore.

Jehovah reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of islands be glad.

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

Worship Jehovah with gladness; come before His presence with singing.

The hope of the righteous is gladness; but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

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

You have multiplied the nation. You have not increased the joy. 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 ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts.

But the righteous are glad; they rejoice before God. Yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.

For You, Jehovah, have made Me glad with 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 who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. For behold, your reward is great in Heaven. For so their fathers did according to these things to the prophets.

And 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 not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,

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

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.And you also rejoice in the same, and rejoice with me.

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

And Jesus said to 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 away from them, and then they shall fast.

And behold, they brought to Him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Child, be of good cheer. Your sins are forgiven you.

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

Yet do not rejoice in this, that the evil spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.

And continuing with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they shared food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

My boldness of speech is great toward you; my glorying on your behalf is much. I have been filled with comfort, I am overflowing with joy on all our trouble.

I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like 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 affliction.

For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we trust in His holy name.

And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it shall rejoice in His salvation.

I have taken Your testimonies as an inheritance forever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

A Song of degrees. When Jehovah turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream.Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing; then they said among the nations, Jehovah has done great things with them.Great things did Jehovah to work with us and we are glad.

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

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

Therefore the redeemed of Jehovah shall return and come with singing into Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head. Gladness and joy shall overtake them; 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, yet possessing all things.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;

And David danced before Jehovah with all his might. And David was girded with a linen ephod.And David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Jehovah with shouting, and with the sound of the ram's horn.And it happened as the ark of Jehovah came to the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Jehovah. And she despised him in her heart.

Woe to you who are full! For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! For you shall mourn and weep.

Then you shall fear and become bright, and your heart shall throb and swell for joy; because the abundance of the sea shall turn to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.

Then he said to them, Go eat the fat and drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our LORD. And do not be sorry, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.

Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.

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

And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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

But let all who put their trust in You rejoice; let them always shout for joy, because You defend them. And let those who love Your name be joyful in You.

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

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