33 Bible Verses about Character

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

having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children,

A sower went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some fell by the way, and was trodden down, and the birds of heaven devoured it; and some fell on the rock, and springing up it was dried up, because it had no moisture; and some fell in the midst of thorns, and the thorns springing up choked it; read more.
and some fell on good ground, and growing up bore fruit a hundred fold. Having said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, What does this parable mean? And he said, It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to others in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. But the parable signifies this; the seed is the word of God; those by the way are those who hear, then comes the devil and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved; those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, and they have no root; they believe for a time, and in a time of trial fall away; and that which fell among thorns signifies those who hear, and going away are choked by cares and riches and the pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground signifies those who, with a noble and good heart, hearing the word retain it, and bear fruit persistently.

and you shall be hated by all men for my sake. But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

And these are those sown in good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

Try yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves; or know you not yourselves that Christ is in you unless you are reprobates?

As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men of no judgment, reprobate in respect to the faith.

They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.

For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;

To you therefore who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of a corner

Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

And behold, there was a man at Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good, traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,

Put on, therefore, as elect and beloved saints of God, hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering,

And behold now, I go constrained by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things which shall befall me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me. But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

But Paul answered, What do you do, to weep and break 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 were silent, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things.

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved;

Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires,

And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.

having a form of piety but denying its power; and these avoid.

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

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

who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you therefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple for evil.

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,

[they] glorifying God on account of the proof of this ministry for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ and the liberality of the contribution to them and to all,

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

for we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we should walk.

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God who had power over these plagues, and changed not their minds to give him glory.

And they reviled him with many other words.

and cast the unprofitable servant into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

all have turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is not even one;

in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine.

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

So every good tree bears good fruits, but a bad tree bears bad fruits;

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,

without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good,

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a pious man, and one fearing God with all his house, and bestowing many charities on the people, and praying to God always,

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

Stiff necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always fight against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, 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 children of the Most High; for he is good to the unthankful and evil.

For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;

But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.

who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do such things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.

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

Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.

being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,

and they attended constantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the breaking of bread and the prayers.

For if I am absent in the flesh, still I am present in spirit with you, rejoicing and beholding your order and the strength of your faith in Christ.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;

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

Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do you all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;

their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues they practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.

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

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

For this is our rejoicing; the testimony of our conscience that in purity and godly sincerity, not with a carnal wisdom, but with a divine grace, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most abundantly towards you.

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God, [for gain]; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.

And a certain Ananias, a man [living] according to the law, approved by all the Jews living [there],

And pious men buried Stephen and made a great lamentation for him.

When he puts out all his 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,

To him the gate-keeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his sheep by name, and leads them out. When he puts out all his sheep he goes before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice.

Pilate answered, what I have written I have written.

For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things.

Blessed are those servants whom their lord when he comes shall find watching. I tell you truly, that he will gird himself, and cause them to recline, and he will come and wait upon them.

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

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

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, See an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.

They shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall conquer them,??or he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.

traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good,

But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.

unintelligent, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful,

And with many other words he testified and exhorted, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

with honor and dishonor, with evil report and good report; as deceivers and true,

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

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we also are.