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 still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

But you, LORD, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a son.”Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

Blessed are you who hunger 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 disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

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

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears 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 cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

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

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Every man also 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.Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life, because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.

The LORD, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how 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 set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Always rejoice.

The LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation [yeshu`ah].

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Hosts.

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

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

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

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

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

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Yeshua said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Yeshua, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

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

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD! My soul will 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 a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

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

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

My soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

When the LORD brought back those who returned to 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, “The LORD has done great things for them.”The LORD has done great things for us, and we are glad.

Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

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

Those ransomed by the LORD will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.So David and all the house of Israel brought up the LORD’s ark with shouting and with the sound of the shofar.As the LORD’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; 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 your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Messiah Yeshua.

Then the LORD’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

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

But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;Walk in love, even as Messiah also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to God, even the Father;

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