32 Bible Verses about Character

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Make clean your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable of sin; ensnaring souls of no stability; having a heart practised in all the wiles of covetousness; children for a curse:

A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell by the road side, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it up. And other seed fell on a rock, and vegetating, withered because it had no moisture. And other seed fell amidst thorns, and the thorns springing up with it, choked it. read more.
And some fell on good ground, and shooting up, produced fruit an hundred fold. So saying, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Then his disciples asked him, saying. What might this parable mean? And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables: that seeing they may not perceive, and hearing may not comprehend. Now this is the parable: The seed is the word of God. They by the road side, are such as hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh the word from their heart, that they should not be saved in believing. And they on the rock, are such as when they have heard, with joy embrace the word; and these have not root, who for a time believe, and in a season of trial apostasize. And that which fell among thorns, are they having heard, and going away, are choked by the cares, and wealth, and pleasures of life, and bring forth no perfect fruit. But that on the good ground are they who having heard the word, retain it in a heart excellent and good, and bring forth fruit with patience.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, that man shall be saved.

And these are they who are sown on the good ground, such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirty fold, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your ownselves: know ye not your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobate?

But in the same manner as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also set themselves in opposition to the truth; men corrupt in mind, reprobate respecting the faith.

They profess to know God; but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

By you therefore who believe is he honoured: but respecting the disobedient, "the stone which the builders rejected, this very stone is become the head of the corner,

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

And, behold, there was a man at Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness, treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;

replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

And now behold I am going, bound by the Spirit, unto Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall there befal me: only this, that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and tribulation await thee. Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

But Paul replied, Why do ye thus??eeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. And when he could not be persuaded, we desisted, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things.

These are the men who separate themselves, sensual, destitute of the Spirit.

For every one whose practices are foul hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his actions may not be brought to conviction.

For such are they who insinuate themselves into houses, and captivate weak women laden with accumulated sins, and actuated by a variety of passions,

But the unction which ye have received from him abideth in you; and ye need not that any person should instruct you. But as the same unction teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie; and as it hath taught you, abide in him.

holding the form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from these men turn with aversion.

darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

And you who in time past were all aliens, and enemies in mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled,

who insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable avidity.

For your obedience is gone forth in report to all men. I rejoice therefore on your account: but I wish you to be wise indeed unto good, but harmless respecting evil.

as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:

(while by the evidence of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberality towards them, and towards all men;)

Wherefore if any person be in Christ, he is a new creation: the old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God hath before prepared us, that we should walk therein.

And the men were scorched with a fierce heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, who had power over these plagues: and they repented not, to give him glory.

And many other things, blaspheming, spake they against him.

And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

All are turned aside together, they are become worthless; there is none that doeth good, there is not even one.

among whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dart its bright beams upon them.

darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

So every good tree beareth good fruits; but every bad tree in kind, produceth bad fruits.

that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,

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

a man of piety, and who feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God continually.

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

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears, ye do always oppose yourselves against the Holy Ghost: as your fathers, so are ye.

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

But love your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for nothing in return: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Most High; for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the wicked.

For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

But to those who shrink back through fear, and to the infidels, and to the abominable, and to murderers, and to whoremongers, and to those who use magical incantations, and to idolaters, and to all liars, is their portion [appointed] in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

who, though they know the righteous judgment of God, that they who live in such practices are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also find pleasure in the company of those who live in these practices.

And you who in time past were all aliens, and enemies in mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled,

Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,

And they persevered stedfastly in the doctrine of the apostles, and in communion, and in breaking bread, and in prayers.

For though I am absent from you in person, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and beholding your regular order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.

Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love ye show to all the saints;

In like manner, ye who are younger persons, be in subjection to your elders: but all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed from head to foot with humility: for God sets himself in opposition to the proud, but he giveth grace to the lowly.

in a flame of fire, taking vengeance of them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have spoken craftily; the poison of asps is under their lips:

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

And every one who hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, but to reserve the wicked unto the day of judgment to be punished:

For our glorying 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 conducted ourselves in the world, and peculiarly towards you.

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

And one Ananias, a religious man according to the law, and in high repute with all the Jews dwelling there,

Then some pious men assembling, carried Stephen to his grave, and made great lamentation over him.

And when he bringeth out his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice.

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

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own peculiar sheep by name, and leadeth them forth. And when he bringeth out his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice.

Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

For there are many disorderly persons vainly talkative, and under a spirit of delusion, especially some of the circumcised;

whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things.

Blessed are those servants, whom the Master, when he cometh, shall find watchful: verily I say unto you, that he will gird up himself, and make them sit down at table, and come and wait upon them.

that ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, inoffensive, in the midst of an untoward and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world;

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

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite in reality, in whom there is no guile!

They shall make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: because he is Lord of lords, and King of kings and they that are with him, are called, and elect, and faithful.

treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;

unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,

But to those who shrink back through fear, and to the infidels, and to the abominable, and to murderers, and to whoremongers, and to those who use magical incantations, and to idolaters, and to all liars, is their portion [appointed] in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful:

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

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For as many as are guided by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, yet true men;

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be fed to the full.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for their's is the kingdom of heaven.

And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name's sake whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.