55 occurrences in 9 translations

'Reviling' in the Bible

And the person who doth aught with a high hand -- of the native or of the sojourner -- Jehovah he is reviling, and that person hath been cut off from the midst of his people;

Verse ConceptsBanishmentdefianceHell, As Incentive To ActionIrreverencePresumptionExcommunicationInfidelity To GodMan's PurposesDeath Penalty For ViolenceThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysDisobedience, To GodUnknown GodsThe Curse Of The LawDifferent GodsPenalties For Serving Other GodsObeying Goddisobediencecursesobeying

'And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, that thou hast given the blessing on mount Gerizim, and the reviling on mount Ebal;

Verse ConceptsMountainsThe Curse Of The LawBlessing And Cursecurses

and Jehovah thy God hath not been willing to hearken unto Balaam, and Jehovah thy God doth turn for thee the reviling to a blessing, because Jehovah thy God hath loved thee;

Verse ConceptsPeople Of God, In OtBlessing And CurseCursing IsraelGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodcurses

And these do stand, for the reviling, on mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book,

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawGod Will Be Angry

And it hath been, when all these things come upon thee, the blessing and the reviling, which I have set before thee, and thou hast brought them back unto thy heart, among all the nations whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee away,

Verse ConceptsThe Curse Of The LawBlessing And Cursecurses

'I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,

Verse ConceptsAbortionChoicesChoosingHeaven And EarthHell, As Incentive To ActionUniverseLiving WitnessesAppealing To GodSeeking LifeChoosing God's WayBlessing And CurseLife And DeathThings As WitnessesAssisted SuicideDescendants ofLife After DeathFamily Deathcurses

And afterwards he hath proclaimed all the words of the law, the blessing and the reviling, according to all that is written in the book of the law;

Verse ConceptsReading The ScripturesBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawBlessing And CurseThe Law Given Through Moses

And king David hath come in unto Bahurim, and lo, thence a man is coming out, of the family of the house of Saul, and his name is Shimei, son of Gera, he cometh out, coming out and reviling;

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodlyharassment

And thus said Shimei in his reviling, 'Go out, go out, O man of blood, and man of worthlessness!

it may be Jehovah doth look on mine affliction, and Jehovah hath turned back to me good for his reviling this day.'

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing Their AfflictionGod Sending His SonGod Will Requite

And lo, with thee is Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim, and he reviled me -- a grievous reviling -- in the day of my going to Mahanaim; and he hath come down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swear to him by Jehovah, saying, I do not put thee to death by the sword;

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodly

And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of reviling; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Verse ConceptsAbortionBirth Not Being Possible

because thy heart is tender, and thou art humbled because of Jehovah, in thy hearing that which I have spoken against this place, and against its inhabitants, to be for a desolation, and for a reviling, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me -- I also have heard -- the affirmation of Jehovah --

Verse ConceptsHumilityRepentance, Examples OfRenewed HeartPenitentConviction Of SinAfflicted Saints, Examples OfHumbling OneselfHumble YourselfChanging Yourself

because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turneth the reviling into a blessing.

Verse ConceptsHiringBlessing And CurseCursing Israel

And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguageCursingLoving EvilPeople BlessingUngodly CursingBlessing OthersSwearingcurses

And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

Verse ConceptsBodyGarments Of SinClothed With Bad ThingsDamage To The BodyThings Like WaterLike WaterSwearingcurses

He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Verse ConceptsInsultsMockerySpeech, Negative Aspects OfWasteScoffersAbusemockers

As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsSwallowsSparrowsThose FlyingBirdsflyingcurseswandering

Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.

Verse ConceptsForgiving Ones EnemiesDo Not Listen!speakingSwearingAbuserumorscursesgossipingattention

And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of reviling; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Verse ConceptsBirth Not Being PossibleNo Strength To CopeStress And Hard TimesWomen's StrengthWeaknessStaying Strong During Hard TimesGetting Through Hard Timesenergybabystrengh

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.

Verse ConceptsJacob, The Patriarch

Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart is My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

Verse ConceptsJustice, In Believers' LivesMorality, And RedemptionBeing ReprovedPay Attention To God!People In RighteousnessTaking The Law To Heart

Woe to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me -- All of them are reviling me.

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHealthInterestLonelinessSadnessSelf PitySuicideCynicismNever Being BornRegretting BirthBorrowingLending And BorrowingUngodly CursingFighting One AnotherConflictlent

And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentOffenceRidicule, Nature OfMade A Horror

Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.

Verse ConceptsHissingMade A Horror

Then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.'

Verse ConceptsThe House Of God At Shiloh

And taken from them hath been a reviling by all the removed of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah doth set thee as Zedekiah, and as Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted with fire;

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleLike Bad PeopleCursing The Ungodly

for thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: As poured out hath been Mine anger and My fury on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so poured out is My fury upon you in your entering Egypt, and ye have been for an execration, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach, and ye do not see any more this place.

Verse ConceptsCursing The UngodlyGod Will Be AngryMade A Horror

by provoking Me to anger by the works of your hands, by making perfume to other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are going in to sojourn, so as to cut yourselves off, and so as to your being for a reviling and for a reproach among all nations of the earth?

Verse ConceptsDifferent Gods

and I have taken the remnant of Judah, who have set their faces to enter the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they have all been consumed in the land of Egypt; they fall by sword, by famine they are consumed, from the least even unto the greatest, by sword and by famine they die, and they have been for an execration, for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordFamine KillingMade A Horror

And Jehovah is not able any more to accept you, because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations that ye have done, and your land is for a waste, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, without inhabitant, as at this day.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftMade A HorrorUnbearable Things

For, by Myself, I have sworn, An affirmation of Jehovah, That for a desolation, for a reproach, For a waste, and for a reviling -- is Bozrah, And all her cities are for wastes age-during.

Verse ConceptsMade A Horror

And it hath been a reproach and a reviling, An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that are round about thee, In My doing in thee judgments, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

Verse ConceptsMade A HorrorThe Nations Before GodFun

That's how you'll know that I, the LORD, have heard every loathsome, reviling thing that you've had to say against the mountains of Israel, such as, "They're desolate, and we'll eat them for dinner!'

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodIrreverenceAnimals Eating PeopleGod Hearing

‘Do not speak out,’ so they speak out.But if they do not speak out concerning these things,Reproaches will not be turned back.

Verse ConceptsProphecy Muzzled

And it hath come to pass, As ye have been a reviling among nations, O house of Judah, and house of Israel, So I save you, and ye have been a blessing, Do not fear, let your hands be strong.

Verse ConceptsConsistencyStrength Of PeopleBlessing Through God's PeopleGod Saves The NeedyBe Strong!Blessing Others

covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly:

Verse ConceptsLewdnessShovelsEvil EyesDeceiving OneselfThe Entrance Of SinCovetousnessGreedInfidelity

Those who were passing by were insulting Him with abusive and insolent language, wagging their heads [as a sign of contempt], and saying, “Ha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in [only] three days,

Verse ConceptsGesturesMockingDestruction Of The TempleShaking The HeadInsulting ChristRebuilding The TempleAbuse

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe! Even those who were crucified with him were reviling him.

Verse ConceptsMessianic Titles, King Of The JewsChrist Going DownReasons For Faith In ChristChrist Is King Of IsraelCrucifiedInsulting ChristOthers Crucified

And many other things spake they against him, reviling him.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfCharacter Of Wicked

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

Verse ConceptsJealousyPersecution, Forms OfEnvy, Example OfContradictingMaking Israel Jealous

But since the Jews kept resisting and opposing him, and blaspheming [God], he shook out his robe and said to them, “Your blood (damnation) be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtConfrontationBlood, as symbol of guiltInsultsSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfAbuse, To God's PeopleRejection Of God's CallShakingName CallingThe Gentiles ConversionPreaching Gospel To ForeignersResponsibility For Blood ShedPeople Abandoning PeopleBlasphemy

But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofUnbelief, As Response To GodWay, TheUnbelief, Sourced InUnbelief, Results Of Being GuiltyUnbelief, Examples OfDiscussionsSchoolsObstinate IndividualsOnce A DaySchoolChristians Are Called Followers Of The Way

And those who stood nearby said, "Are you reviling the high priest of God?

Verse ConceptsInsulting Other People

But actually, I have written to you not to associate with any so-called [Christian] brother if he is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an idolater [devoted to anything that takes the place of God], or is a reviler [who insults or slanders or otherwise verbally abuses others], or is a drunkard or a swindler—you must not so much as eat with such a person.

Verse ConceptsBad CompanyAlcoholGreed, Believers' Response ToBad FriendsFellowship With WickedSexual ChastityCorrecting A BrotherGood AssoiciatesWarnings Of Evil AssociationsAvoid ImmoralityAvoiding IdolatryNo DealingsAbusive RelationshipsAddictionCovetousnesssexGreedSexual Immoralitydrunkards

who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfInsultsPunishment, By GodRevenge, Examples OfSuffering, Of The InnocentViolenceJesus Christ, Meekness OfForbearance Of GodBelief In GodAbuse

whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAngelsThe Power Of Other Creaturesaccusations

But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversDestructionProfanityWicked Described AsInstinctAnnihilationDestruction Of The WickedKilling Wild AnimalsBeing Killed Like An AnimalMen Similar To AnimalsMammalsKilled Like An AnimalPetsignorancecorruptionacting

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Revile (29 instances)
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