24 Bible Verses about joking
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and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.
Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law [who were] taking his daughters and said, "Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh [is going] to destroy the city!" But {it seemed like a joke} in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
They [are] vanity, a work of mockery, at the time of their punishment, they will perish.
I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.
But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.
Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it [was] a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands?
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.
You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.
Fools mock [the] guilt offering, but among the upright, it is favorable.
And they themselves scoff at kings and rulers [are] a joke to them. They laugh at every fortification, and they heap up earth and take it.
{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,
"You shall not {misuse the name of Yahweh your God}, because Yahweh will not leave unpunished [anyone] who {misuses his name}.
It happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, "Call out with a loud voice, for he [is] a god! Perhaps he is meditating, or {is using the bathroom}, or [is] on a journey. Perhaps he [is] asleep and must wake up!"
For {as often as} I speak, I must cry out violence and destruction. I must shout, for the word of Yahweh has become for me a disgrace and derision all day [long].
They [are] worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish.
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