38 Bible Verses about Character

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

having their eyes full of adultery, and not knowing how to cease from sin, baiting unstable souls, having their heart exercised in covetous practices; cursed sons,

A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, some fell along the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon the rock, and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. read more.
And some fell on good ground and sprang up and bore fruit a hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those along the way are those that hear; then comes the devil and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. Those on the rock are those that when they hear, receive the word with joy, but these have no root, who for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are those who when they have heard go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are those who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.

Why dost thou talk so much, changing thy ways? Thou shalt also be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? Your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

And these are those who are sown in good ground, such as hear the word and receive it and bring forth fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.

My heart is ready, O God, my heart is willing; I will sing and give praise.

O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise; this is my glory.

Mem He shall not be afraid of evil rumours; Nun his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

And it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David that she was given unto Adriel, the Meholathite, to wife.

And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they fornicated after other gods and bowed themselves unto them; they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers had walked hearing the commandments of the LORD; but they did not do so.

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten calf and have worshipped it and have sacrificed unto it and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

But when the judge was dead, then they would return, and corrupt themselves more than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down unto them; they did not diminish from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years because they walked three years in the way of David and of Solomon.

Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do ye not know your own selves if Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are reprobates.

And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth, men of corrupt understanding, reprobate concerning the faith.

They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable and rebellious and reprobate unto every good work.

For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Nevertheless, they were contentious and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their backs and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great abominations.

Unto you, therefore, who believe he is precious; but unto those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; they shall be subject to weakness and to a curse.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him will become filled with pride, but the just in his faith shall live.

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

But when Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the slave, the Ammonite, and Geshem, the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said, What is this thing that ye do? Will ye rebel against the king?

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Is this to be permitted them? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish on time? Will they resurrect the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which were burned?

without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness, traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

They only consult to cast him down from his greatness; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their inward parts. Selah.

No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart and did not hearken unto them as the LORD had said.

And Pharaoh even hardened his heart this time and did not let the people go.

And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he persevered in his sin and hardened his heart, he and his slaves.

And it was told the king of Egypt how the people fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his slaves was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Clothed, therefore, (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) with bowels of mercies, with kindness, with humility, with meekness, with tolerance,

For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God; the LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, different from all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD has chosen thee to be a unique people unto himself from among all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

And now, behold, I go bound of the Spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there, except that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that prisons and tribulations await me. But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear unto myself, only that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, Let the will of the Lord be done.

and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder it.

that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they had thought to do me evil.

Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.

And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and used divination and enchantments and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).

These are those who make divisions, and are as animals, not having the Spirit.

They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.

For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,

My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent. If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause. Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole as those that go down into the pit; read more.
We shall find all kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil. Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you of all things and is truth, and is no lie; and even as it has taught you, abide ye in him.

And all thy sons shall be taught of the LORD; and the peace of thy sons shall be multiplied.

having the appearance of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Therefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people sacrifice unto me and honour me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, and their worship with which they honour me was taught by the commandment of men:

Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called upon God.

Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Lamed The wicked borrows and does not repay: but the righteous shows mercy and gives.

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth and smote him: I hid my face and was wroth, and he went on rebelliously in the way of his heart.

The way of the perverse man is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of unjust men shall perish.

We have conceived, we have had birth pangs; we have, as it were, brought forth wind; we have not wrought any health in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled you

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Likewise ye also cannot do good, being taught to do evil.

To complete the evil with their hands, the prince demands, and the judge judges for a reward; and the great man speaks the desires of his heart: and they confirm it.

who, after losing all sense of feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But we were all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves of a tree; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

For your obedience is come abroad unto all places. I am glad therefore on your behalf, but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and innocent concerning evil.

as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,

But the liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things shall he rise.

that by the experience of this ministration, they glorify God for the obedience of your consent unto the gospel of the Christ and in your liberal distribution unto them and unto everyone,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues; and they did not repent to give him glory.

And they spoke many other things blasphemously against him.

And cast ye the unprofitable slave into the outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.

In whom the god of this age has blinded the understanding of those who do not believe, that the light of the gospel of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine in them.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.

that ye put off everything concerning the old way of life, that is, the old man who corrupts himself according to deceitful desires,

without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,

The evil man flatters his neighbour and leads him into the way that is not good.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Then the humble shall grow in joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

a devout man and one that feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people and prayed to God always.

Then those that feared the LORD spoke one to another, and the LORD hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for those that feared the LORD and for those that think in his name.

And thy people shall all be righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever; they shall be shoots of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye.

For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that I may know what to do unto thee.

To complete the evil with their hands, the prince demands, and the judge judges for a reward; and the great man speaks the desires of his heart: and they confirm it.

He that devises to do evil shall be called a man of evil designs.

For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,

But rather love ye your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward shall be great; and ye shall be the sons of the Most High, for he is kind even unto the unthankful and to the evil.

For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

When Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the slave, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the sons of Israel.

The wicked flee when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a young lion.

But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion,

Who having understood the righteousness of God, they did not understand that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only those that do the same, but even those who encourage those that do them.

And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled you

because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.

Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the man who is poor in spirit and destitute and broken in heart, that he might slay him.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

And they coveted fields and stole them, and houses and took them away; so they oppressed the man and his house, even the man and his heritage.

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

He is ever merciful and lends, and his seed is a blessing.

And Solomon said, Thou hast shown unto thy slave David, my father, great mercy, according to the way he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great mercy that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

He that walks in integrity and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

But as touching love among the brethren, ye need not that I write unto you, for ye yourselves have learned of God that ye are to show charity to one another.

since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the charity which ye have toward all the saints,

Beth My soul shall glory in the LORD; the meek shall hear of this, and be glad.

Likewise, young people, be subject to the elders in such a manner that you are all subject to one another. Be clothed with humility of will, for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.

Do ye thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not thy father that has possessed thee? He made thee and established thee.

The foolish (those who are governed by carnal thoughts or desires) shall not stand in thy sight; thou dost hate all workers of iniquity.

with flaming fire, to take vengeance on those that do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hear the word of the LORD, ye sons of Israel; for the LORD contends with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the earth.

Thou shalt destroy those that speak lies: the LORD will abominate the bloody and deceitful man.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,

For thus has said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is The Holy One; I dwell in the high place and in holiness and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to cause the spirit of the humble to live and to cause the heart of the contrite ones to live.

For all these things my hand has made, by my hand has these things been, said the LORD; but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembles at my word.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished;

But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself; the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

A good reputation is rather to be chosen than great riches and good grace rather than silver and gold.

A good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly towards you.

For we are not as many, false merchandisers of the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD speaks, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

That this is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that did not desire to hear the law of the LORD:

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.

Those that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, does not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is no one that does good.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good witness of all the Jews who dwelt there,

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him.

And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

When any man takes a wife and after having gone in unto her, hates her and gives occasions of speech against her and brings up an evil name upon her and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin, then shall the father of the damsel and her mother take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate. read more.
And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hates her; and, behold, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a virgin; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. Then the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

For it came to pass when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David, his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. read more.
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon. And he did likewise for all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. But he refused and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back anything from me but thee because thou art his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? read more.
And it came to pass as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not hearken unto her, to lie by her or to be with her. And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business, and none of those of the house were there within. And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me; and he left his garment in her hand and fled and got outside.

To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, principal in dignity, and the principal in power. Unstable as water, thou shalt not be principal because thou didst go up to thy father's bed; then thou became defiled, going up to my couch.

Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

And there ye shall remember your ways and all your doings, in which ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

For there are many insubordinate and vain talkers and deceivers of souls, especially those of the circumcision,

But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; yea, the smiters gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me apart and did not cease:

whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).

Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths.

The man of Belial digs in search of evil, and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

ALEPH. Blessed are those who walk in the perfect way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Blessed are those slaves, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching; verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to food and will come forth and serve them.

The wise in heart is called a man of understanding; and the sweetness of the lips shall increase doctrine.

that ye may be blameless and innocent, children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a people of his own, zealous of good works.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, Behold a true Israelite, in whom is no guile!

These shall make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those that are with him are called and chosen and faithful.

It is better to humble your spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

And to sons that have hard faces and strong hearts do I send thee; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said.

But the house of Israel will not desire to hear; for they do not desire to hear me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,

But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, without mercy.

The righteous man hates lying: but the wicked man makes himself loathsome, and abominable.

And with many other words he testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is that they are not his sons; they are a perverse and crooked generation.

And to sons that have hard faces and strong hearts do I send thee; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said.

For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,

traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,

Do ye thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not thy father that has possessed thee? He made thee and established thee.

For all that are led by the Spirit of God, the same are sons of God.

through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet as men of the truth;

The wicked flee when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a young lion.

The appearance of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

And now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, those whom thou hast given me, keep them in thy name, that they may be one, as we are.

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest in the midst of the praises of Israel.