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 your mouth with laughter And your lips with shouting.

I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them.

You will laugh at violence and famine, And you will not be afraid of wild beasts.

Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

The Lord laughs at him, For He sees his day is coming.

Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter And our tongue with joyful shouting; Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

But You, O Lord, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.

Sarah laughed to 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 indeed bear a child, when I am so old?’Is anything too difficult for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”Sarah denied it however, 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 satisfied. 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 will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,

Sorrow is better than laughter, For when a face is sad a heart may be happy.

The righteous will see and fear, And will laugh at him, saying,

Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.

Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

For as the crackling of thorn bushes under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool; And this too is futility.

A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Strength and dignity are her clothing, And she smiles at the future.

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

For you will go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

How blessed are the people who are so situated; How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

You have put gladness in my heart, More than when their grain and new wine abound.

He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few.For he will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.

So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.

To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing And her people for gladness.I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; And there will no longer be heard in her The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.

The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, But a good word makes it glad.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones; And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’

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

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

A joyful heart makes a cheerful face, But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.

All the days of the afflicted are bad, But a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Bright eyes gladden the heart; Good news puts fat on the bones.

The exercise of justice is joy for the righteous, But is terror to the workers of iniquity.

By transgression an evil man is ensnared, But the righteous sings and rejoices.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!

Rejoice always;

The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice; Let the many islands be glad.

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

Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing.

The hope of the righteous is gladness, But the expectation of the wicked perishes.

Therefore you will joyously draw water From the springs of salvation.

You shall multiply the nation, You shall increase their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.

But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God; Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets.

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

and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.

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

And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

And they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”

Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart,

Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old, together, For I will turn their mourning into joy And will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.

For our heart rejoices in Him, Because we trust in His holy name.

And my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; It shall exult in His salvation.

I have inherited Your testimonies forever, For they are the joy of my heart.

When the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion, We were like those who dream.Then our mouth was filled with laughter And our tongue with joyful shouting; Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”The Lord has done great things for us; We are glad.

Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

So the ransomed of the Lord will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, And everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

And the disciples were continually 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 was dancing before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod.So David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.Then it happened as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Then you will see and be radiant, And your heart will thrill and rejoice; Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, The wealth of the nations will come to you.

Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

For You have been my help, And in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

And the ransomed of the Lord will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

For then you will delight in the Almighty And lift up your face to God.

But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You.

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

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