20 Bible Verses about negativity

They died because they had returned and made the whole community complain about Moses. They spread lies about the land.

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Keep a good conscience. When you are spoken against, those who revile your good manner of life in Christ may be put to shame.

But I am like some one deaf and speechless.

A sound heart is life for the body. Envy (jealousy) is like bone cancer (decay) (rottenness to the bones).

We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

The lazy man desires and has nothing. The diligent man will be made rich.

Give no occasion for stumbling (offence) in anything that our ministry may not be blamed (discredited).

You will know peace in your tent. You will inspect your house and find nothing missing.

When I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.

Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Now Jericho was tightly shut up because the people were afraid of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

Do not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed that you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

He who guards his mouth and holds his tongue stays out of trouble.

They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth.

A righteous person may strike me or correct me out of kindness. It is like lotion for my head. My head will not refuse it, because my prayer is directed against evil deeds.

The person who endures to the end will be saved.

Is this man the carpenter's son? Is his mother called Mary? Are his brothers James and Joseph, Simon, and Judas?

Buy the truth and do not sell it. Also buy wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.