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Bible Verses about “joking”

The Bible contains 48 verses about joking across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Ephesians 4:29
952 votes

“Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.”

Ephesians 5:25
790 votes

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”

2 Timothy 2:15
648 votes

“Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.”

Ephesians 5:33
646 votes

“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

Ephesians 5:28
547 votes

“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”

Ephesians 5:22
527 votes

“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:29
511 votes

“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”

Ephesians 5:18
486 votes

“Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,”

Ephesians 5:31
469 votes

“"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."”

Ephesians 5:23
454 votes

“For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.”

1 Corinthians 15:33
452 votes

“Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."”

Ephesians 5:26
450 votes

“that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,”

Ephesians 5:27
447 votes

“that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

Ephesians 5:24
426 votes

“But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.”

Ephesians 5:4
419 votes

“nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.”

Ephesians 5:16
407 votes

“redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”

Ephesians 5:30
380 votes

“because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.”

Ephesians 5:32
374 votes

“This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.”

Ephesians 5:11
366 votes

“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.”

Ephesians 5:15
343 votes

“Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;”

Ephesians 5:19
323 votes

“speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”

Colossians 3:8
301 votes

“but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.”

Ephesians 5:17
297 votes

“Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

Galatians 6:7
286 votes

“Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”

Ephesians 5:3
282 votes

“But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;”

1 John 4:20
269 votes

“If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”

Ephesians 5:20
264 votes

“giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;”

Matthew 12:36
254 votes

“I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.”

Ephesians 5:2
238 votes

“Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.”

Ephesians 5:21
234 votes

“subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.”

Ephesians 5:6
229 votes

“Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.”

Ephesians 5:8
229 votes

“For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,”

Ephesians 5:1
224 votes

“Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.”

Proverbs 17:22
223 votes

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

Ephesians 5:5
220 votes

“Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.”

Ephesians 5:14
208 votes

“Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."”

Ephesians 5:7
197 votes

“Therefore don't be partakers with them.”

Ephesians 5:9
197 votes

“for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,”

Ephesians 5:10
192 votes

“proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:12
192 votes

“For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.”

Matthew 24:12
187 votes

“Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.”

Colossians 3:9
185 votes

“Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,”

James 5:12
164 votes

“But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.”

Ephesians 5:13
163 votes

“But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.”

Proverbs 26:19
93 votes

“is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"”

Proverbs 26:18
86 votes

“Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,”

Luke 6:45
50 votes

“The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”

Proverbs 10:23
17 votes

“It is a fool's pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.”

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