Bible verses about "joking" | Goodspeed

¹² Above all, my brothers, do not swear an oath, either by heaven or by the earth, or by anything else; let your "Yes" be a plain Yes, and your "No" a plain No, or you will fall under condemnation.

¹⁵ Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.

³³ Do not be misled. Bad company ruins character.

¹² and because of the increase of wickedness, most men's love will grow cold.

¹ So follow God's example, like his dear children, ² and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. ³ But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people. ⁴ There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk—all that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead. ⁵ For you may be sure that no one who is immoral, or greedy for gain (for that is idolatry) can have any share in the Kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient. ⁷ Therefore have nothing to do with them. ⁸ For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light, ⁹ for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth; ¹⁰ you must make sure what pleases the Lord. ¹¹ Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead. ¹² For while it is degrading even to mention their secret practices, ¹³ yet when anything is exposed by the light, it is made visible, and anything that is made visible is light. ¹⁴ So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!" ¹⁵ Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men, ¹⁶ and make the most of your opportunity, for these are evil times. ¹⁷ So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. ¹⁸ Do not get drunk on wine, for that is profligacy, but be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹ and speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and sacred songs. Sing praise to God with all your hearts; ²⁰ always give thanks for everything to God our Father, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ and subordinate yourselves to one another out of reverence to Christ. ²² You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord, ²³ for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him. ²⁴ Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands. ²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, ²⁷ in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless. ²⁸ That is the way husbands ought to love their wives—as if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself, ²⁹ for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church, ³⁰ for we are parts of his body. ³¹ Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one. ³² This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church. ³³ But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

²⁹ No bad word must ever pass your lips, but only words that are good and suited to improve the occasion, so that they will be a blessing to those who hear them.

³⁶ But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment.

⁴ There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk—all that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead.