Bible verses about "joking" | JuliaSmith

¹² And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment.

²² A joyful heart shall make good healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry up the bones.

¹⁰⁵ Thy word a lamp to my feet, and a light to my beaten path.

¹⁵ Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.

³³ Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits.

¹² And because anxiety shall increase, the love of many shall be cooled.

¹ Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children; ² And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor. ³ And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy; ⁴ And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness. ⁵ For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Be ye not therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light: ⁹ (For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;) ¹⁰ Trying what is pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute. ¹² For the things done secretly by them it is also shameful to speak. ¹³ And all things refuted, by light are made manifest: for everything made manifest is light. ¹⁴ Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee. ¹⁵ See therefore how ye walk accurately, not as unwise, but as wise, ¹⁶ Making purchase of time, for the days are evil. ¹⁷ For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ Speaking to yourselves on harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, singing and playing on the harp in your heart to the Lord; ²⁰ Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father; ²¹ Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God. ²² Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; ²⁶ That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word, ²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless. ²⁸ So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself. ²⁹ For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church: ³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹ For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. ³² This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church. ³³ But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

²⁹ Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.

³⁶ And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment.

¹⁸ As a madman casting fiery darts, arrows and death, ¹⁹ So the man deceiving his neighbor and saying, Am I not sporting?

⁴ And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.