Bible Verses about “joking”
The Bible contains 48 verses about joking across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.”
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.”
“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”
“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].”
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
“¶ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].”
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
“Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”
“‹But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.›”
“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”
“¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”
“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”
“¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”
“¶ A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”
“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”
“(For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)”
“Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.”
“For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.”
“‹And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.›”
“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”
“¶ But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.”
“But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.”
“So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?”
“¶ As a mad [man] who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,”
“‹A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.›”
“¶ [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.”