What The Bible Says About Laughter

Proverbs 17:22 - A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Job 8:21 - Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

Psalms 126:2 - Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

Ecclesiastes 3:4 - A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Luke 6:21 - Blessed [are ye] that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed [are ye] that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

James 5:13 - Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Proverbs 15:15 - All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.

Proverbs 14:13 - Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.

Psalms 2:4 - He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Psalms 37:13 - The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

Genesis 21:6 - And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that] all that hear will laugh with me.

Psalms 59:8 - But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.