39 Bible Verses about Scoffers

First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

"Behold, you despisers, and marvel, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare it to you."

because they told you that at the last time there will be mockers according to their lusts, leading ungodly lives.

And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know!

Behold, they say to me, Where is the Word of Jehovah? Let it come now!

And certain philosophers from the Epicureans and from the Stoics met him. And some said, What will this babbler say? And others said, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them).

First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts

Do not reprove a scorner, lest he hate you; give to a wise man, and he will love you.

A scorner does not love one who corrects him, nor will he go to the wise.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but the wise turn away wrath.

Proud, haughty scorner is his name, he who deals in proud wrath.

One rebuking a scorner gets shame to himself; and one rebuking a wicked one gets himself a blemish.

The thought of foolishness is sin; and the scorner is hateful to men.

and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

And the runners went with the letters from the king and his rulers to Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, O sons of Israel, turn again to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped out of the hands of the king of Assyria. And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers who sinned against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and He made them for a horror, as you see. And do not be stiffnecked like your fathers. Yield yourselves to Jehovah and enter into His temple which He has sanctified forever. And serve Jehovah your God, so that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.read more.
For if you turn again to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will have mercies before those who lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land. For Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him. And the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and ill-treated His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah arose against His people, until there was no healing.

And they say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways; what is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have if we pray to Him?

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water;

Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?

And they spoke against God; they said, Can God set a table in the wilderness? Behold! He struck the rock so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread? Can He provide flesh for His people?

because they rebelled against the Words of God, and despised the advice of the Most High. and He humbled their heart with labor; they fell down, and none was helping.

For He remembers them, the seekers of bloodshed; He forgets not the cry of the humble.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because Jehovah is his refuge. Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Zion? When Jehovah brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

For they intended evil against You; they imagined a wicked thing; they are not able to prevail. For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces. Be exalted, O Jehovah, in Your strength; we will sing, and praise Your power.

I was cast on You from the womb; You are My God from My mother's belly.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin with cart ropes; who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know!

Shall the axe boast itself against him who chops with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wave those who lift itself up! As if a staff could raise what is not wood!

For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is destroyed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;

Of whom are you making sport? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and draw out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a lying seed,

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; nor shall the flame kindle on you.

In the days of her affliction and her wandering Jerusalem remembered all her desirable things from previous days; when her people fell into the hand of the foe; and there is no ally for her. The foes saw her; they laughed at her annihilation.

And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his image room? For they are saying, Jehovah does not see us; Jehovah has forsaken the earth.

And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land; and, Jehovah does not see.

And He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city; who say, It is not near; let us build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the flesh.

Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways.

In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.