Laughter

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

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

Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. — read the full passage →

I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.

Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.” — read the full passage →

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come. — read the full passage →

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” — read the full passage →

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.” — read the full passage →

When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. — read the full passage →

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory—

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; — read the full passage →

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?” — read the full passage →

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.” — read the full passage →

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” — read the full passage →

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. — read the full passage →

The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” — read the full passage →

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. — read the full passage →

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. — read the full passage →

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

“For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. — read the full passage →

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. — read the full passage →

He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. — read the full passage →

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. — read the full passage →

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. — read the full passage →

He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.” — read the full passage →

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” — read the full passage →

He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’ — read the full passage →

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. — read the full passage →

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.” — read the full passage →

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do. — read the full passage →

Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you. — read the full passage →

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways. — read the full passage →

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream. — read the full passage →

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts. — read the full passage →

Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him. — read the full passage →

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. — read the full passage →

Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “This day is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. — read the full passage →

When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name. — read the full passage →

It was so, that, when those who bore Yahweh’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. — read the full passage →

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. — read the full passage →

Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand. — read the full passage →

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you. — read the full passage →

Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you. — read the full passage →

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” — read the full passage →

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. — read the full passage →

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. — read the full passage →

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. — read the full passage →