27 Bible Verses about humor
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Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
And ye will hear of wars, and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
Whoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
There were also women looking on at a distance, among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger, and of Joses, and Salome;
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, (because he had defiled Dinah their sister,)
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Then he cometh to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground, that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: it may be he will save thy life.
Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet should perish out of Jerusalem.
For what glory is it, if, when ye are buffeted for your faults, ye bear it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye bear it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valor: and there escaped not a man.
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go, and do sacrifice to the LORD.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.
And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her to him for a wife.
But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows,
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were assembled about him.
And he went up from thence to Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou bald-head; go up, thou bald-head.
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them.
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
And Elijah answered and said to them, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
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