38 Bible Verses about Character

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.

Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:

The sower went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some truly fell by the way, and was trodden down, and the fowls of heaven devoured it. And other fell upon a rock; and having brought forth, was dried up, for it had no moisture. And other fell in the midst of thorns; and the thorns grew together and choked it. read more.
And other fell upon good earth; and having brought forth, made fruit, a hundredfold. Saying these, he called out, He having ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What may this parable be? And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. And this is the parable: The seed is the word of God. And they by the way are they hearing; then comes the devil, and takes away the word from their heart, lest having believed, they should be saved. And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away. And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity. And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Why wilt thou despise greatly to do the second time thy way? also thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wert ashamed of Assur.

What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, O Judah? and your kindness as the cloud of the morning, and as the dew being early went away.

And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.

And these are they sown on good earth; who hear the word, and receive, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

My heart was prepared, O God, my heart was prepared: I will sing and play on the harp.

Song of chanting to David. My heart being prepared, O God, I will sing and play on the harp, also mine honor.

He shall not fear an evil report: his heart being prepared to trust in Jehovah.

And it will be in the time of giving Merab, Saul's daughter, to David, and he gave her to Adriel, the Meholathite, for wife,

And also they will not hear to their judges, for they committed fornications after other gods, and they will worship to them: they turned aside quickly from the way which their fathers went to hear the commands of Jehovah; they did not so.

For they turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them: they made for them a molten calf, and worship to it, and will sacrifice to it, and will say, These thy gods, Israel, which raised thee up out of the land of Egypt

And it was in the dying of the judge, they will turn back and be corrupted above their fathers to go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them: they let nothing fall from their deeds and from their hard way.

And they will strengthen the kingdom of Judah, and make firm Rehoboam son of Solomon, for three years: for they went in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?

And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these have withstood the truth: men corrupted in mind, not tried concerning the faith.

They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.

Therefore honour to you believing: and to the unbelieving, the stone which the builders disapproved of has become the head of the corner,

For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,

The pride of thy heart deceived thee, dwelling in the refuges of the rock, the height his seat; he said in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the earth?

The sin of their mouth the word of their lips, and they shall be taken in their pride: and from cursing and from falsehood they will recount.

These the generations of Noah; a just man, and was complete in his generations: Noah walked with God.

Behold, his soul being inflated in him, was not straight: and the just one shall live by his faithfulness.

And, behold, a man was in Jerusalem, the name to him Simeon; and this man just and cautious, waiting the consolation of Israel : and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they will mock to us and despise us, and say, What this word that ye do? are ye bearing rule against the king?

And he will say before his brethren and the strength of Shomeron, and he will say, What are the feeble Jews doing? will they leave to themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they give life to the stones of the heaps of dust, and they being burnt?

Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good, Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted to pleasure more than loving God;

The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.

Surely they counseled to thrust down his lifting up: they will delight in falsehood: with their mouth they will praise, and in their inward parts they will curse. Silence.

None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.

And Pharaoh will see that there was enlargement, and he made his heart heavy, and he heard not to them; as Jehovah spake.

And Pharaoh will make his heart heavy also in this time; he sent not forth the people.

And Pharaoh will see that the rain ceased, and the hail and the voices; and he will add to sin, and he will make his heart heavy, he and his servants.

And it was announced to the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh will be turned, and his servants, against the people, and they will say, What this we did, that we sent forth Israel from serving us?

Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.

The widow and the stranger they will slay, and they will kill the orphan.

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God: in thee Jehovah thy God chose to be to him a people of property from all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.

For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah chose in thee to be to him for a people of acquisition above all people which are upon the face of the earth.

And now, behold, I, bound in the spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things going to happen to me in it; But that the Holy Spirit testifies in the city, saying that bonds and pressures await me. But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus. And he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

And they will conspire all of them together to come to war against Jerusalem, and to do damage to it

And Sanballat sent to me and Geshem, saying, Come, and we will pass over together in the villages in the valley of Ono. And they reckoned to do evil to me

My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.

And Ahab will say to Elijah, Didst thou find me, O mine enemy? And he will say I found: because thou didst sell thyself to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah,

And they will cause their sons and their daughters to pass through in fire, and divine divinations and enchantments, and they will be sold to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to Irritate him.

Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)

These are they separating themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit.

They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.

For every one doing bad things hates the light, and he comes not to the light, lest his works should be rebuked.

For of these are they going into houses, and taking captive little women heaped up with sins, led away with various eager desires,

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in. If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously; We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit: read more.
We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil: Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:

And the anointing which ye received from him remains in you, and ye have no need that any teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is true, and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye shall remain in him.

And all thy sons taught of Jehovah; and much the peace of thy sons.

Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce.

And Jehovah will say, Because that this people drew near with their month, and honored me with their lips, and their heart was far from me, and their fear towards me shall be taught from the command of men.

What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him?

Did not those transgressing know any thing? eating up my people, they ate bread: they called not upon God.

Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?

The unjust one borrowed and he will not repay: and the just one compassionated, and gave.

For the iniquity of his plunder was I angry, and I will smite him: covering myself, and I will be angry, and he went turning away in the way of his heart.

The way of man is crooked and strange: and the pure his work is right

In the death of an unjust man expectation shall perish: and the hope of the vain shall perish.

We conceived, we were pained, thus we brought forth wind; we shall not make the earth salvation, the inhabitants of the habitable globe shall not fall.

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled

Will the Cushite change his skin and the panther his variegated spots? Ye shall also be able to do good, being taught to do evil.

For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it

Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.

And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away.

For your obedience has come to all. Therefore I rejoice for you: and I wish you truly to be wise to good, and pure to evil.

As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:

And the liberal will counsel liberal things, and upon liberal things shall he stand.

By the proof of this service honouring God for the subjection of your assent to the good news of Christ, and to the simplicity of mutual participation to them and to all;

So that if any in Christ, a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all have become new.

For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,

And men were parched up with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, having power over these blows: and they repented not to give him glory.

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

And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

All have bent aside, together have they become unprofitable: there is none doing good, there is not even one.

In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

So every good tree makes good fruits; but the rotten tree makes evil fruits.

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;

Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,

A man of violence will seduce his neighbor, and he caused him to go in a way not good.

Happy the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

And the humble shall add joy in Jehovah, and the poor of men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Religious, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many alms to the people, and praying God always.

Then they fearing Jehovah spake each to his neighbor, and Jehovah will attend and will hear, and write a book of remembrance before him for those fearing Jehovah, and for thinking upon his name.

And thy people all of them just: forever shall they inherit the land, watching his planting, the work of my hand for glory.

And they were both just before God, going faultless in all the commands and precepts of the Lord.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, Ye are a people of a hard neck: one moment I will come up in the midst of thee, and finish thee: and now bring down thy ornaments from thee, and I shall know what I shall do to thee.

For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it

He purposing to do evil for himself shall be called the master of mischief.

For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil.

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it will be evil to them a great evil that a man came to seek good for the sons of Israel.

The unjust fled and none pursuing, and the just shall be confident as the young lion.

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

Those rejoicing to do evil will exult in the deceit of evil;

Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing.

And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled

Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.

For whom thou didst strike they pursued; and they will relate to the pain of thy wounded.

Because he remembered not to do mercy, and he will pursue the poor and needy man to slay the dejected of heart.

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

And they desired fields, and they took by force; and houses, and they took away: and they oppressed a man and his house, and a man and his inheritance.

And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.

For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Happy the compasaionate: for they shall be commiserated.

All the day he compassionates and lends; and his seed to be blessed.

And Solomon will say, Thou didst with thy servant David, my father, great mercy, according as he went before thee in the truth and in justice and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou wilt watch for him this great mercy, and thou wilt give to him a son sitting upon his throne as this day.

He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart.

And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and love to all the holy,

in Jehovah my soul shall glory, the humble shall hear and rejoice.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.

The foolish shall not stand before thine eyes: thou hatedst all working vanity.

In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.

Thou shalt destroy those speaking falsehood: a man of bloods and deceit Jehovah will abhor.

Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:

For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.

And all these my hand made, and all these shall be, says Jehovah: and to this will I look, to the humble. and smitten of spirit, and trembling at my word.

Happy the pure in heart: tor they shall see God.

And every one having this hope in him purifies himself, as he himself is pure.

The Lord knows to deliver the religious out of temptation, and to keep the unjust restrained for the day of judgment;

And know ye that Jehovah separated the kind one to himself: Jehovah will hear in my calling to him.

A Name to be chosen rather than much riches, and good grace rather than gold.

A good name is above good oil, and the day of death above the day of birth.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

Hear, ye heavens, and give ear thou earth, for Jehovah spake: for I caused to grow and lifted up sons, and they rebelled against me.

For this is a people of contradiction, sons of lies, sons who will not to hear the law of Jehovah.

For the unjust boasted upon the desire of his soul, and he blessed him plundering, despising Jehovah.

They trusting upon their wealth, and they will glory in the multitude of their riches.

The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts.

To the overseer; of David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted, they made their; works abominable, none doing good.

And a certain Ananias, a religious man according to the law, testified of by all the Jews dwelling,

And circumspect men interred Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.

And when he would put 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.

If any man shall take a wife, and went in to her and hated her, And he set pretexts of words against her, and brought up an evil name upon her, and said, I took this woman, and I shall come near to her, and I found in her not a virgin: And the father of the young girl took, and her mother, and brought the signs of virginity of the young girl to the elders of the city to the gate: read more.
And the father of the maiden said to the old men, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife and he will hate her, And behold, he set up pretexts of words, saying, I found not in thy daughter the signs of virginity; and these the signs of my daughter's virginity. And they spread the garment before the old men of the city. And the old men of that city took the man and chastised him; And they amerced him a hundred of silver, and gave to the father of the maiden, for he brought out an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be to him for a wife; he shall not be able to send her away all his days.

And it will be at the time of the old age of Solomon his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God as the heart of David his father. And Solomon will go after Ashtaroth the god of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and he will not fill up after Jehovah as David his father. read more.
Then Solomon will build a height for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the mountain which is upon the face of Jerusalem, and for the king, the abomination of the sons of Ammon. And thus he did for all his strange wives, they burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.

And it will be after these words, and his lord's wife will lift up her eyes to Joseph, and she will say, Lie with me. And he will refuse, and will say to his lord's wife, Behold, my lord knew not what is with me in the house, and all which is to him he gave into my hand; Nothing is great in this house above me: and he kept not back anything from me except thee, because thou his wife: and how shall I do this great evil and sin before God? read more.
And it will be in her speaking to Joseph day by day, and he listened not to her to he by her, to be with her. And it will be about this day, and he will come into the house to do his work: and no man from the men of the house there in the house. And she will seize him by his garment, saying, Lie with me. And he will let go his garment in her hand, and will flee and come forth without

To him the guard of the door opens; and the sheep hear his voice : and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Reuben, my first-born, thou my strength, and the beginning of my strength, the abundance of elevation, and the abundance of might Vain glorious as water, thou shalt not be preeminent; for thou didst go up out of thy father's. bed; then didst thou defile, going up to my couch.

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

And ye remembered there your ways, and all your works which ye were defiled in them; and ye shall be wearied in your faces for all your evils which ye did.

For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision:

And in my halting they rejoiced, and they were gathered together: they smiting were gathered together against me, and I knew not; they rent asunder and ceased not:

Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)

Over Egypt and over Judah and over Edom, and over the sons of Ammon, and over Moab, and over all cut off of the extremity dwelling in the desert: for all the nations being uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel uncircumcised of heart

So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish.

Their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out innocent blood: their purposes, purposes of vanity; destruction and breaking in their highways.

A man of Belial dug up evil, and upon his lips, as a burning fire.

Happy the blameless of way, they going in the law of Jehovah.

Happy those servants, whom the Lord having come shall find watching; truly I say to you, he will gird himself, and make them recline, and having come he will serve them.

He understanding shall call to the wise of heart: and sweetness of lips shall add knowledge

That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;

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

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and he says of him, Behold truly an Israelite, in whom is no deceit!

These will wage war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they with him called, and chosen, and faithful.

Good the cast down of spirit with the humble more than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted to pleasure more than loving God;

And the sons hard of face and strong of heart. I send thee to them; and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah.

And the house of Israel will not hear to thee; for they are not willing to hear to me: for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead, and they are hard of heart.

Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless:

The just one will hate the word of falsehood: and the unjust one will be loathsome and be put to shame.

And with many other words he appealed earnestly and besought, saying, Be ye saved from this crooked generation.

He acted wickedly to him; not his sons their blot: A generation perverted and crooked.

And the sons hard of face and strong of heart. I send thee to them; and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah.

For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,

Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted to pleasure more than loving God;

For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,

To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true;

The unjust fled and none pursuing, and the just shall be confident as the young lion.

The withdrawing of their face answered against them; and they announced their sins as Sodom, and they covered not. Wo to their soul! for they rewarded evil to themselves.

Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled.

Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.

And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. O holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou but given me, that they might be one, as we.

And thou inhabiting the holy place, the praises of Israel.