17 Bible Verses About Fun

The Bible calls eating, drinking and enjoying one’s work a gift of God, and it also warns against pleasure. Ecclesiastes says “there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad” (Ecclesiastes 8:15), yet the same book says “Laughter… is madness” (Ecclesiastes 2:2) and “Frustration is better than laughter” (Ecclesiastes 7:3). Other passages describe children playing in the streets of a rebuilt Jerusalem (Zechariah 8:5), a father who throws a feast for…