38 Bible Verses about Character

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

having eyes full of adultery, and who cannot cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture. Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. read more.
Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?" 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 see, and hearing they may not understand.' Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.

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

"Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

And you will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

And those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.

My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

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

Yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not do so.

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

But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they did not cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or do you not know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you??unless indeed you are disqualified.

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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

"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who do not believe, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

At that time there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking 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 it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"

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 finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?"

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken.

Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

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

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

For you are a holy people to the LORD your God: The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there; except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me. But I make my life an account of nothing precious to myself, so that I may finish my race, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News 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." When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The Lord's will be done."

and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come, let us meet together at Ha-Kephirim in the plain of Ono." But they intended to harm me.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know its ways, nor abide in its paths.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, "Come with us, Let's lie in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. read more.
We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you remain in him.

All your children shall be taught by God; and great shall be the peace of your children.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous give generously.

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

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

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

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, new things have come.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

People were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, there is not even one."

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, to prevent the light shining from the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

The humble also will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared the LORD, and who honored his name.

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

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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

The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

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

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

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

He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, towards one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Do you thus requite the LORD, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

giving vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel; for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

You will destroy those who speak lies. The LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be," says the LORD: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

But know that the LORD has set apart for himself him who is godly: The LORD will hear when I call to him.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD;

For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns the LORD.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches?

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

One Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.

Whenever he brings out 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 accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity"; then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate; read more.
and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her; and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;' and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up 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, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD 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. Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not completely follow after the LORD, as did David his father. read more.
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. So he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me." But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" read more.
As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he did not listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside. She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

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

There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

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

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore at me, and did not cease.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

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

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

ALEPH. Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD.

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

The children are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'

But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

foolish, promise-breakers, heartless, unmerciful;

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation."

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

The children are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Do you thus requite the LORD, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

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

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

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

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe to their soul. For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.