23 Bible Verses about Godlessness

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Psalm 14:1-3

For the choir director. Davidic.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”
They are corrupt; they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.
The Lord looks down from heaven on the human race
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.
All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

Psalm 53:1-3

For the choir director: on Mahalath. A Davidic Maskil.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”
They are corrupt, and they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.
God looks down from heaven on the human race
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.
All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

Job 35:9-10

People cry out because of severe oppression;
they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty.
But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,
who provides us with songs in the night,

Psalm 10:4-11

In all his scheming,
the wicked arrogantly thinks:
“There is no accountability,
since God does not exist.”
His ways are always secure;
Your lofty judgments are beyond his sight;
he scoffs at all his adversaries.
He says to himself, “I will never be moved—
from generation to generation without calamity.”
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Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;
trouble and malice are under his tongue.
He waits in ambush near the villages;
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;
he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket.
He lurks in order to seize the afflicted;
he seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.
So he is oppressed and beaten down;
the helpless fall because of his strength.
He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He hides His face and will never see.”

Psalm 36:1-4

For the choir director. A psalm of David, the Lord’s servant.An oracle within my heart
concerning the transgression of the wicked person:
There is no dread of God before his eyes,
for in his own eyes he flatters himself too much
to discover and hate his sin.
The words of his mouth are malicious and deceptive;
he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.
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Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.
He sets himself on a path that is not good
and does not reject evil.

Proverbs 30:8-9

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.
Give me neither poverty nor wealth;
feed me with the food I need.
Otherwise, I might have too much
and deny You, saying, “Who is the Lord?”
or I might have nothing and steal,
profaning the name of my God.

Jeremiah 23:11-12

because both prophet and priest are ungodly,
even in My house I have found their evil.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Therefore, their way will be to them
like slippery paths in the gloom.
They will be driven away and fall down there,
for I will bring disaster on them,
the year of their punishment.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Job 8:11-19

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?
While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.
Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless will perish.
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His source of confidence is fragile;
what he trusts in is a spider’s web.
He leans on his web, but it doesn’t stand firm.
He grabs it, but it does not hold up.
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine;
his shoots spread out over his garden.
His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks.
He looks for a home among the stones.
If he is uprooted from his place,
it will deny knowing him, saying, “I never saw you.”
Surely this is the joy of his way of life;
yet others will sprout from the dust.

Job 34:29-30

But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,
so that godless men should not rule
or ensnare the people.

Psalm 9:17-20

The wicked will return to Sheol—
all the nations that forget God.
For the oppressed will not always be forgotten;
the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever. Rise up, Lord! Do not let man prevail;
let the nations be judged in Your presence.
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Put terror in them, Lord;
let the nations know they are only men.Selah

Job 13:15-16

Even if He kills me, I will hope in Him.
I will still defend my ways before Him.
Yes, this will result in my deliverance,
for no godless person can appear before Him.

Job 15:34

For the company of the godless will have no children,
and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes.

Job 20:4-5

Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,
from the time man was placed on earth,
the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

Job 27:8-10

For what hope does the godless man have when he is cut off,
when God takes away his life?
Will God hear his cry
when distress comes on him?
Will he delight in the Almighty?
Will he call on God at all times?

Job 36:8-13

If people are bound with chains
and trapped by the cords of affliction,
God tells them what they have done
and how arrogantly they have transgressed.
He opens their ears to correction
and insists they repent from iniquity.
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If they serve Him obediently,
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.
But if they do not obey,
they will cross the river of death
and die without knowledge. Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.

Psalm 50:16-22

But God says to the wicked:
“What right do you have to recite My statutes
and to take My covenant on your lips?
You hate instruction
and turn your back on My words.
When you see a thief,
you make friends with him,
and you associate with adulterers.
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You unleash your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue for deceit.
You sit, maligning your brother,
slandering your mother’s son.
You have done these things, and I kept silent;
you thought I was just like you.
But I will rebuke you
and lay out the case before you. “Understand this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you apart,
and there will be no one to rescue you.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation;
I will command him to go
against a people destined for My rage,
to take spoils, to plunder,
and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 33:13-14

You who are far off, hear what I have done;
you who are near, know My strength.” The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling seizes the ungodly:
“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”

1 Timothy 6:20-21

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent, empty speech and contradictions from the “knowledge” that falsely bears that name. By professing it, some people have deviated from the faith.

Grace be with all of you.

Romans 11:26-27

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

The Liberator will come from Zion;
He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.
And this will be My covenant with them
when I take away their sins.

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