25 Bible Passages About Having Fun
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Though we don’t find the specific mention of the English word "fun" in the Bible, we find many activities throughout Scripture that we most certainly associate with having fun. These bountiful joys are gifts from God. Here are 25 Bible passages about having fun (all Scripture quotations from the English Standard Version)!
Eating and Drinking
1. “And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.” (Deut. 12:7)
2. There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? (Eccles. 2:24-25)
3. Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” (Neh. 8:10)
Playing
4. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. (Zech. 8:5)
Singing, Dancing, and Making Music
5. Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. (Ex. 15:20)
6. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…a time to mourn, and a time to dance. (Eccles. 3:1, 4b)
7. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the Lord. (Ps. 27:6)
8. Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! (Ps. 149:3)
9. Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp!
Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe!
Praise him with sounding cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord! (Ps. 150:3-6)
10. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (Isa. 35:10)
11. “Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.” (Jer. 31:13)
12. Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. (James 5:13)
Laughing
13. And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.” (Gen. 21:6)
14. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…a time to weep, and a time to laugh (Eccles. 3:1, 4a)
15. “He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.” (Job 8:21)
16. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.” (Luke 6:21)
Rejoicing
17. “Let those who delight in my righteousness
shout for joy and be glad
and say evermore,
“Great is the Lord,
who delights in the welfare of his servant!” (Ps. 35:27)
18. This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps. 118:24)
19. A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed. (Prov. 15:13)
20. All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast. (Prov. 15:15)
21. “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” (John 15:11)
22. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. (Phil. 4:4)
23. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. (1 Pet. 1:8-9)
Celebrating
24. “‘And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’” And they began to celebrate.” (Luke 15:23-24)
25. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:8)
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