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 shouts of joy.

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.

Clubs are counted as chaff; it laughs at the rattle of javelins.

but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that their day is coming.

Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

But you laugh at them, O Lord; you hold all the nations in derision.

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?”The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’Is anything too wonderful for the Lord? At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son.”But Sarah denied, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she was afraid. He said, “Oh yes, you did laugh.”

Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will 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 panic strikes you,

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

The righteous will see, and fear, and will laugh at the evildoer, saying,

Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.

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

For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools; this also is vanity.

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy.

For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Happy are the people to whom such blessings fall; happy are the people whose God is the Lord.

You have put gladness in my heart more than when their grain and wine abound.

Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves.

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;

Likewise all to whom God gives wealth and possessions and whom he enables to enjoy them, and to accept their lot and find enjoyment in their toil—this is the gift of God.Never be rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be quick to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few. For they will scarcely brood over the days of their lives, because God keeps them occupied with the joy of their hearts.

So I commend enjoyment, for there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat, and drink, and enjoy themselves, for this will go with them in their toil through the days of life that God gives them under the sun.

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has long ago approved what you do.Let your garments always be white; do not let oil be lacking on your head.Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that are given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion— to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit. They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight.I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of distress.

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.

Anxiety weighs down the human heart, but a good word cheers it up.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,so that my soul may praise you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

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

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

Rejoice with those who rejoice, 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 glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

All the days of the poor are hard, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the body.

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers.

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

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.

Rejoice always,

The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!

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

Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing.

The hope of the righteous ends in gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder.

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

But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy.

For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

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

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

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.

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

Although you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

We are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you—and in the same way you also must be glad and rejoice with me.

Let Israel be glad in its Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

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

And just then some people were carrying a paralyzed man lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.”

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

Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts,

I often boast about you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with consolation; I am overjoyed in all our affliction.

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my whole being shall exult 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 a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

Our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.

Then my soul shall rejoice in the Lord, exulting in his deliverance.

Your decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”The Lord has done great things for us, and we rejoiced.

Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

So the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing 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 everything.

Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble,

David danced before the Lord with all his might; 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 trumpet.As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal 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 full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep.

Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and rejoice, because the abundance of the sea shall be brought to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions of them to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our Lord; and 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 understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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

then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.

But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, so that those who love your name may exult in you.

as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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