38 Bible Verses about Character

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.

having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children

A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, the one fell by the roadside and was trampled; and the birds of the air devoured it. And other fell on a rock, and sprouting, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And other fell amidst thorns, and springing up with the thorns, they choked it. read more.
And other fell on good ground and sprang up, and bore fruit a hundredfold. And when He had said these things, He cried, He who has ears to hear, let him hear. And His disciples asked Him, saying, What might this parable be? And He said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. But to others I speak in parables, so that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand. And the parable is this: The seed is the Word of God. Those by the roadside are the ones who hear; then the Devil comes and takes the Word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. Those on the rock are the ones who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy. And these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And those which fell among thorns are the ones who, when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of life, and do not bear to maturity. But those on the good ground are the ones who, in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.

Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.

And you will be hated of all men for My name's sake, but the one who endures to the end shall be kept safe.

And these are those sown on good ground, who hear the Word and welcome it, and bear fruit, one thirty, one sixty, and one a hundredfold.

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

A Song, A Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and I will give praise, even with my glory.

He shall not be afraid of bad news; his heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah.

And it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite to be his wife.

And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went lusting after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, for they had obeyed the commandments of Jehovah; these did not do so.

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

And it happened when the judge was dead, they returned and made themselves more rotten than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

And they made the kingdom of Judah stronger, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years. For three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?

But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Law behind their backs. And they killed Your prophets who testified against them to turn them to You, and they worked great blasphemies.

Therefore to you who believe is the honor. But to those who are disobedient, He is the Stone which the builders rejected; this One came to be the Head of the corner,

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

The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock, his dwelling is lofty; saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

For the sin of their mouth is the word of their lips, even let them be taken in their pride; and for cursing and the lying which they speak.

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

Behold, the soul of him is lifted up, and is not upright; but the just shall live by his faith.

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

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us. And they said, What is this that you do? Will you rebel against the king?

And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they bring to life the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good, traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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

Surely they have plotted to cast him down from his great height; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their heart. Selah.

None calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity.

But Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them, even as Jehovah had said.

And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned still more and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

And the king of Egypt was told that the people fled. And the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants 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 hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.

They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.

And now, behold, I am going bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.

Then Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. And he not being persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

And all of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and do harm to it.

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

And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of Jehovah.

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire. And they used divination and incantations, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, those who mind earthly things.)

These are those setting themselves apart, animal-like ones, not having the Spirit.

They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths.

For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts,

My son, if sinners lure you, do not be willing. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit; read more.
we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder; cast in your lot among us, and let us have one purse.

But the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and no lie, and as He has taught you, abide in Him.

And all your sons shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of your sons.

having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.

And Jehovah said, Because this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the command of men;

what is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have if we pray to Him?

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

Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?

The wicked borrows, and never pays again; but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid Myself, and was angry, and he went on turning away in the way of his heart.

The way of a guilty man is perverted; but the pure, his work is right.

When a wicked man dies, his hope shall perish; and the hope of evil ones shall be lost.

We conceived; we have been in pain, we gave birth to wind. We have not brought about any salvation in the earth; nor have the people 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, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.

For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,

But the noble thinks noble things; and by noble things he shall stand.

through the proof of this ministry they glorify God for your freely expressed submission to the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of the fellowship toward them and toward all,

So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

And men were burned with great heat. And they blasphemed the name of God, He having authority over these plagues. And they did not repent in order to give Him glory.

And they spoke many other things blasphemously against Him.

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

"They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one."

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on 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.

For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

A violent man lures his neighbor and makes him go in a way not good.

Blessed are the meek! For they shall inherit the earth.

And the meek shall increase joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

one devout and fearing God, with all his household, both doing many merciful deeds to the people, and praying continually to God.

Then those fearing Jehovah spoke together, each man to his neighbor. And Jehovah listened and heard. And a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Jehovah, and for those esteeming His name.

Your people also will all be righteous; they will inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

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

O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.

And Jehovah had said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people. I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and I will consume you. And now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.

He who plots to do evil shall be called a master of wicked thoughts.

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, 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 you shall be the sons of the Highest. For He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard. And it grieved them very much that there had come a man to seek the good of the sons of Israel.

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

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversities of the wicked;

who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.

And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.

For they persecute him whom You have stricken, and they talk to the grief of those You pierced.

because he did not remember to do mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and sought to kill the broken-hearted.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

And they were continuing steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine, and in fellowship and in the breaking of the loaves, and in prayers.

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

Blessed are the merciful! For they shall obtain mercy.

All the day long he deals graciously, and lends; and his seed is blessed.

And Solomon said, You have shown to Your servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before You in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with You. And You have kept this great kindness for him, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart;

But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have to all the saints,

My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah; the humble shall hear and be glad.

Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble.

Do you thus give back to Jehovah, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity.

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

You shall destroy those who speak lies; Jehovah will despise the bloody and deceitful man.

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

For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

For all those My hand has made, and all those exist, says Jehovah. But to this one I will look, to the afflicted and contrite spirit, and the one who trembles at My Word.

Blessed are the pure in heart! For they shall see God.

And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust for a day of judgment, to be punished,

But know that Jehovah has set apart the godly for Himself. Jehovah hears when I call to Him.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches; and loving favor rather than silver or 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 fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God; we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah has spoken, I have nursed and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against Me.

that this is a rebellious people, lying sons. They are sons who will not hear the Law of Jehovah;

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

Those who trust in their wealth, and their many riches, boast themselves.

Through the pride of his face the wicked will not seek Him; There is no God in all his schemes.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, testified to by all the Jews who lived there,

And devout men buried Stephen and made a great mourning 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.

If any man takes a wife and goes in to her, and hates her, and makes shameful charges against her, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity, then shall the father of the girl, and her mother, take and bring tokens of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. read more.
And the girl's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her. And, lo, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, I have not found in your daughter the tokens of virginity. And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him. And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the girl, because he has brought an evil name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

For it happened when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods. And his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites; and Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did not go fully after Jehovah like his father David. read more.
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill which is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon. And likewise he did for all his foreign wives, and burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

And after these things it happened that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph. And she said, Lie with me. But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is in the house with me, and he has given all that he has into my hand. There is none greater in this house than I. Neither has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? read more.
And it happened as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not listen to her to lie with her, or to be with her. And it happened about this time that he came into the house to do his work. And none of the men of the house were inside. And she caught him by his robe, saying, Lie with me. And he left his robe in her hand and fled, and got out.

The doorkeeper opens to him, 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, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch.

Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings in which you have been defiled. And you shall despise yourselves in your own sight for all your evils which you have committed.

For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

But in my stumbling they rejoiced, and gathered themselves; the defamers gathered themselves against me, and I knew not; they tore and were not silent,

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, those who mind earthly things.)

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the sons of Ammon, and Moab, and all who are in the outermost corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are not circumcised, and all the house of Israel, those not circumcised in heart.

So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

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

An ungodly man plots evil, and his lips are like a burning fire.

ALEPH: Blessed are the upright in the way, who walk in the Law of Jehovah.

Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Truly I say to you that he shall gird himself and make them recline; and coming up he will serve them.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,

who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him and said of him, Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile!

These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with Him are the called and elect and faithful ones.

It is better to be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

And the sons are stiff of face, and hard of heart. I am sending you to them; and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah.

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead and hard of heart.

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

undiscerning, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

The righteous hates lying, but the wicked one is odious and acts shamefully.

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

They have corrupted themselves: they are not His sons; it is their blemish; they are a crooked and perverse generation.

And the sons are stiff of face, and hard of heart. I am sending you to them; and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah.

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

traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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

Do you thus give back to Jehovah, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

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

through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers and yet true;

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

The look of their faces witnesses against them; and they declare their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it! Woe to their soul! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.

Blessed are the poor in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.

And now I am in the world no longer, but these are in the world, and I come to You, Holy Father. Keep them in Your name, those whom You have given Me, so that they may be one as We are.

But You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.