39 Bible Verses about Scoffers

Know this first, that in the last days, mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, Saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Look among the nations, watch, and be amazed. Though you are told you will not believe the work I do today. (Habakkuk 1:5)

They said to you: In the last time there will be mockers (scoffers), walking after their own ungodly lusts.

They ask: How does God know? And is there knowledge with the most High?

You say: Let Jehovah hurry up and do what he says he will, so that we can see it. Let Israel's holy God carry out his plans. Let us see what he has in mind.

Look, they keep saying to me: Where is the word of Jehovah? Let it come now!

The Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said: What is this babbler saying? Others: He seems to be advocating strange gods because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Know this first, that in the last days, mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

Correct a scoffer (mocker) (scorner) and he will hate you. Reprove a wise man and he will love you.

A scoffer hates the one who reproves him. He will not go to the wise.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare. Wise men turn away anger.

Proud and haughty mocker is his name. He acts with overbearing pride.

Correct a scoffer and get dishonor for yourself. Rebuke a wicked man and receive insults.

The thought of foolishness is sin. The mocker is an abomination to men.

Saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Messengers carried letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. The king's order said: Israelites should return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Then he will return to the few of you who escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria. Do not be like your ancestors and your relatives who were unfaithful to Jehovah the God of their ancestors. He made them something that shocks people, as you have seen. Do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to Jehovah and enter his sanctuary that he has consecrated from generation to generation. Serve Jehovah your God that His burning anger may turn away from you.read more.
If you return to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. Jehovah your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face away from you if you return to him. So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

They mocked God's messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.

They say to God: 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.' Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what do we gain if we pray to him?

Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water?

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful mockers.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?

Then they spoke against God. They said: Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, and streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?

They had rebelled against God's words and had despised the advice given by the Most High. He humbled them with hard work. They fell down, but no one was there to help them.

God remembers those who suffer. He does not forget their cry, and he punishes those who wrong them.

([Psalm of David]) How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

They put the advice of oppressed people to shame because Jehovah is their protection. If only salvation for Israel would come from Zion! When Jehovah restores his captive people, Jacob will rejoice. Israel will be glad.

Even though they scheme and devise evil against you, they will not succeed. They turn their backs and flee because you aim your bow at their faces. Arise O Jehovah be exalted in your strength. We will sing to praise your power.

I was placed in your care from birth. From my mother's womb you have been my God.

Woe to those who scatter sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity with a cart rope! You say: Let Jehovah hurry up and do what he says he will, so that we can see it. Let Israel's holy God carry out his plans. Let us see what he has in mind.

Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it? Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it? A rod cannot move the person who lifts it. A wooden stick cannot pick up a person.

All who are cruel and arrogant will be extinguished. Those who live by crime will be removed.

With whom are you effeminate (self-indulgent)? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit?

When you go through the sea, I am with you. When you go through rivers, they will not sweep you away. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not harm you.

Jerusalem remembers in her days of sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things that were hers in the past. When her people were captive to the power of her adversary she had no helper. Her attackers desired her and made fun of her in her destruction.

Then he said: Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say: 'Jehovah does not see us! Jehovah has forsaken the land!'

He answered me: The wickedness of the nations of Israel and Judah is terrible! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with wrongdoing. They think that Jehovah has abandoned the land and that he does not see.

Jehovah said to me: Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give bad advice in this city (Jerusalem). They say: 'It is almost time to rebuild houses. This city is a cooking pot, and we are the meat.'

The people of Israel say: 'Jehovah's way is not right.' I will judge each of you by your own ways, people of Israel.

On the day of the king's celebration, the officials become drunk from the heat of wine, and the king joins mockers.