Popular Bible Verses about Laughter

Found 12 Verses

James 4:9

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Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. NIV

[As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins]. AMP

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. KJV

Ecclesiastes 10:19

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A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for everything. NIV

[Instead of repairing the breaches, the officials] make a feast for laughter, serve wine to cheer life, and [depend on tax] money to answer for all of it. AMP

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. KJV

Job 8:21

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He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. NIV

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter [Job] and your lips with joyful shouting. AMP

Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. KJV

Ecclesiastes 7:3

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Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. NIV

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better and gains gladness. [II Cor. 7:10.] AMP

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. KJV

Ecclesiastes 2:2

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"Laughter," I said, "is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?" NIV

I said of laughter, It is mad, and of pleasure, What does it accomplish? AMP

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? KJV

Ecclesiastes 7:6

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Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools. This too is meaningless. NIV

For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)! AMP

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. KJV

Genesis 17:19

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Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him." NIV

But God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed, and you shall call his name Isaac [laughter]; and I will establish My covenant or solemn pledge with him for an everlasting covenant and with his posterity after him. AMP

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. KJV

Genesis 21:6

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Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me." NIV

And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh; all who hear will laugh with me. AMP

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. KJV

Proverbs 14:13

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Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief. NIV

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness and grief. AMP

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. KJV

Genesis 21:3

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Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. NIV

Abraham named his son whom Sarah bore to him Isaac [laughter]. AMP

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. KJV