25 Bible Verses About Humor And Laughter (ESV)

22   A joyful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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

21   He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
    and your lips with shouting.

4   a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
  a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

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

13   A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
    but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

13   Even in laughter the heart may ache,
    and the end of joy may be grief.

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

4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

21 “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.

“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

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

11   You make known to me the path of life;
    in your presence there is fullness of joy;
    at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

11   Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous,
    and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

8   I have set the LORD always before me;
    because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
9   Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;
    my flesh also dwells secure.
10   For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,
    or let your holy one see corruption.
11   You make known to me the path of life;
    in your presence there is fullness of joy;
    at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

7   You have put more joy in my heart
    than they have when their grain and wine abound.

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

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

17   The LORD your God is in your midst,
    a mighty one who will save;
  he will rejoice over you with gladness;
    he will quiet you by his love;
  he will exult over you with loud singing.

13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

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

6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

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

1:1   Blessed is the man
    who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
  nor stands in the way of sinners,
    nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2   but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
    and on his law he meditates day and night.
3   He is like a tree
    planted by streams of water
  that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its leaf does not wither.
  In all that he does, he prospers.
4   The wicked are not so,
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5   Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6   for the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.