39 Bible Verses about Scoffers

First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us by saying, "What happened to the Messiah's promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation."

"Look, you mockers! Be amazed and die! Since I am performing an action in your days, one that you would not believe even if someone told you!'"

They kept telling you, "In the last times there will be mockers, following their own ungodly desires."

Then they say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"

who say: "Let God be quick, let him speed up his work so we may see it! Let it happen! let the plan of the Holy One of Israel draw near, so we may recognize it!'"

Look, they're saying to me, "Where is the message from the LORD? Let it come about!"

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some asked, "What is this blabbermouth trying to say?" while others said, "He seems to be preaching about foreign gods." This was because Paul was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us

Don't rebuke a mocker or he will hate you. Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.

The arrogant mocker never loves the one who corrects him; he will not inquire of the wise.

Scornful men enflame a city, but the wise defuse anger.

The names "Proud," "Arrogant," and "Mocker" fit whoever acts with presumptuous conceit.

Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult, and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.

To devise folly is sin, and people detest a scoffer.

by saying, "What happened to the Messiah's promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation."

Couriers were sent throughout all of Israel and Judah with letters written by the king and his princes, just as the king had commanded: "Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know. So don't be stiff-necked like your ancestors were. Instead, submit to the LORD, enter his sanctuary that he has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God so that he'll stop being angry with you. read more.
If you return to the LORD, your relatives and children will receive compassion from those who took them away captive, and they'll return to this land, because the LORD is both gracious and compassionate he will not turn away from you if you return to him." Couriers crossed from city to city throughout the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but those people just mocked them and laughed at them.

but they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until there was no remedy for the wrath of the LORD that arose to punish his people.

"They say to God, "Turn away from us! We have no desire to know your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?'

"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,

How blessed is the person, who does not take the advice of the wicked, who does not stand on the path with sinners, and who does not sit in the seat of mockers.

My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?"

They spoke against God by asking, "Is God able to prepare a feast in the desert? It's true that Moses struck the rock so that water flowed forth and torrents of water gushed out, but is he also able to give bread or to supply meat for his people?"

because they had rebelled against the command of God, despising the advice of the Most High. He humbled them through suffering, as they stumbled without a helper.

As an avenger of blood, he remembers them; he has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

You would frustrate the plans of the oppressed, but the LORD is their refuge. May Israel's deliverance come from Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice, and Israel will be glad. A Davidic Psalm.

Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed. Indeed, you will make them retreat, when you aim your bow at their faces. Rise up, LORD, because you are strong; we will sing and praise your power. To the Director: To the tune of "Doe of the Dawn".A Davidic Psalm.

I was dependent on you from birth; from my mother's womb you have been my God.

"How terrible it will be for those who parade iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin along as with a cart rope; who say: "Let God be quick, let him speed up his work so we may see it! Let it happen! let the plan of the Holy One of Israel draw near, so we may recognize it!'"

"Does the ax exalt itself over the one who swings it? Or does the saw magnify itself in opposition to the one who wields it? As if a rod were to wield those who lift it, or as if a club were to brandish the one who is not wood!

For the ruthless will vanish, and mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down

Whom are you mocking? And against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of lies,

When you pass through the waters, I'll be with you; and through the rivers, they won't sweep over you. when you walk through fire you won't be scorched, and the flame won't set you ablaze.

Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.

the Spirit asked me, "Do you see, Son of Man, what the elders of Israel's house are doing in secret, each in the chamber of his own carved idol? They keep saying, "God doesn't see us. The LORD has abandoned the land.'"

"The house of Israel and Judah is guilty and theirs is a stubborn guilt, at that!" he replied to me. "The land is filled with blood, and the city overflows with injustice, because they keep saying, "The LORD has abandoned the land,' and "The LORD isn't watching.'

Then he told me, "Son of Man, these men are plotting evil and are giving wicked advice in this city. They keep saying, "The right time to build families hasn't yet arrived. The city is the pot and we are the meat.'

"And yet you keep saying, "Living life the Lord's way isn't right,' But I will judge every one of you according to the way you live, you house of Israel!"

"On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.