38 Bible Verses about Character

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!

They have eyes full of adultery and are always looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky ate it up. Other seed fell on the rock; when it sprang up, it withered, since it lacked moisture. Other seed fell among thorns; the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. read more.
Still other seed fell on good ground; when it sprang up, it produced a crop: 100 times [what was sown]." As He said this, He called out, "Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!" Then His disciples asked Him, "What does this parable mean?" So He said, "The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that Looking they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. " "This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. The seeds along the path are those who have heard. Then the Devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. And the seeds on the rock are those who, when they hear, welcome the word with joy. Having no root, these believe for a while and depart in a time of testing. As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit. But the seed in the good ground-these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, bear fruit.

How unstable you are,
constantly changing your ways!
You will be put to shame by Egypt
just as you were put to shame by Assyria.

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your loyalty is like the morning mist
and like the early dew that vanishes.

You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

But the ones sown on good ground are those who hear the word, welcome it, and produce a crop: 30, 60, and 100 times what was sown.”

My heart is confident, God, my heart is confident.
I will sing; I will sing praises.

A song. A Davidic psalm.My heart is confident, God;
I will sing; I will sing praises
with the whole of my being.

He will not fear bad news;
his heart is confident, trusting in the Lord.

When it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.

but they did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods, bowing down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the Lord’s commands. They did not do as their fathers did.

They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, ‘Israel, this is your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

Whenever the judge died, the Israelites would act even more corruptly than their fathers, going after other gods to worship and bow down to them. They did not turn from their evil practices or their obstinate ways.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail the test.

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.

They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You.
They flung Your law behind their backs
and killed Your prophets
who warned them
in order to turn them back to You.
They committed terrible blasphemies.

So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected—
this One has become the cornerstone,

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,
you who live in clefts of the rock
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,
let them be caught in their pride.
They utter curses and lies.

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

Look, his ego is inflated;
he is without integrity.
But the righteous one will live by his faith.

There was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking forward to Israel’s consolation, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

When Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked and despised us, and said, “What is this you’re doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

The wicked go astray from the womb;
liars err from birth.

They only plan to bring him down
from his high position.
They take pleasure in lying;
they bless with their mouths,
but they curse inwardly.Selah

No one makes claims justly;
no one pleads honestly.
They trust in empty and worthless words;
they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

But when Pharaoh saw there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not let the people go.

When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his officials.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the people and said: “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

He waits in ambush near the villages;
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;

They kill the widow and the foreigner
and murder the fatherless.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,

For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

"And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, bound in my spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there, except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me. But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God's grace.

Then Paul replied, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." Since he would not be persuaded, we stopped talking and simply said, "The Lord's will be done!"

They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and throw it into confusion.

Sanballat and Geshem sent me a message: “Come, let’s meet together in the villages of the Ono Valley.” But they were planning to harm me.

Those who seek my life set traps,
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.

Ahab said to Elijah, “So, you have caught me, my enemy.”

He replied, “I have caught you because you devoted yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight.

They made their sons and daughters pass through the fire and practiced divination and interpreted omens. They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked Him.

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things,

These people create divisions and are unbelievers, not having the Spirit.

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

My son, if sinners entice you, don't be persuaded. If they say-"Come with us! Let's set an ambush and kill someone. Let's attack some innocent person just for fun! Let's swallow them alive, like Sheol, still healthy as they go down to the Pit. read more.
We'll find all kinds of valuable property and fill our houses with plunder. Throw in your lot with us, and we'll all share our money"-

The anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, His anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie; just as He has taught you, remain in Him.

Then all your children will be taught by the Lord,
their prosperity will be great,

holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!

The Lord said:

Because these people approach Me with their mouths
to honor Me with lip-service—
yet their hearts are far from Me,
and their worship consists of man-made rules
learned by rote—

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
and what will we gain by pleading with Him?”

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.

Can I excuse wicked scales
or bags of deceptive weights?

The wicked man borrows and does not repay,
but the righteous one is gracious and giving.

Because of his sinful greed I was angry,
so I struck him; I was angry and hid;
but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.

A guilty man’s conduct is crooked,
but the behavior of the innocent is upright.

When the wicked man dies,
his expectation comes to nothing,
and hope placed in wealth vanishes.

We became pregnant, we writhed in pain;
we gave birth to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

Can the Cushite change his skin,
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,
you who are instructed in evil.

Both hands are good at accomplishing evil:
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment;
all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

The report of your obedience has reached everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good, yet innocent about what is evil.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

But a noble person plans noble things;
he stands up for noble causes.

They will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with others through the proof provided by this service.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.

and people were burned by the intense heat. So they blasphemed the name of God, who had the power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give Him glory.

And they were saying many other blasphemous things against Him.

And throw this good-for-nothing slave into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

All have turned away;
all alike have become useless.
There is no one who does what is good,
not even one.

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

A violent man lures his neighbor,
leading him in a way that is not good.

The gentle are blessed,
for they will inherit the earth.

The humble will have joy
after joy in the Lord,
and the poor people will rejoice
in the Holy One of Israel.

He was a devout man and feared God along with his whole household. He did many charitable deeds for the Jewish people and always prayed to God.

At that time those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Yahweh and had high regard for His name.

Then all your people will be righteous;
they will possess the land forever;
they are the branch I planted,
the work of My hands,
so that I may be glorified.

Both were righteous in God’s sight, living without blame according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

For the Lord said to Moses: “Tell the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. If I went with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.”

Both hands are good at accomplishing evil:
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.

The one who plots evil
will be called a schemer.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites, they were greatly displeased.

The wicked flee when no one is pursuing them,
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

from those who enjoy doing evil
and celebrate perversion,

Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

For they persecute the one You struck
and talk about the pain of those You wounded.

For he did not think to show kindness,
but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenhearted
in order to put them to death.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

They covet fields and seize them;
they also take houses.
They deprive a man of his home,
a person of his inheritance.

And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to the prayers.

For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.

The merciful are blessed,
for they will be shown mercy.

He is always generous, always lending,
and his children are a blessing.

And Solomon replied, “You have shown great and faithful love to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and integrity. You have continued this great and faithful love for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

The one who lives honestly, practices righteousness,
and acknowledges the truth in his heart—

About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints

I will boast in the Lord;
the humble will hear and be glad.

In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because

God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble.

Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?

The boastful cannot stand in Your presence;
You hate all evildoers.

taking vengeance with flaming fire on those who don’t know God and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Hear the word of the Lord, people of Israel,
for the Lord has a case
against the inhabitants of the land:
There is no truth, no faithful love,
and no knowledge of God in the land!

You destroy those who tell lies;
the Lord abhors a man of bloodshed and treachery.

Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.

For the High and Exalted One
who lives forever, whose name is Holy says this:
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.

My hand made all these things,
and so they all came into being.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will look favorably on this kind of person:
one who is humble, submissive in spirit,
and trembles at My word.

The pure in heart are blessed,
for they will see God.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

Know that the Lord has set apart
the faithful for Himself;
the Lord will hear when I call to Him.

A good name is to be chosen over great wealth;
favor is better than silver and gold.

A good name is better than fine perfume,
and the day of one’s death than the day of one’s birth.

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth,
for the Lord has spoken:
“I have raised children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against Me.

They are a rebellious people,
deceptive children,
children who do not want to obey the Lord’s instruction.

For the wicked one boasts about his own cravings;
the one who is greedy curses and despises the Lord.

They trust in their wealth
and boast of their abundant riches.

In all his scheming,
the wicked arrogantly thinks:
“There is no accountability,
since God does not exist.”

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.

Someone named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good reputation with all the Jews residing there,

Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.

"If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her, and accuses [her] of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, 'I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn't find [any] evidence of her virginity,' the young woman's father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring [it] to the city elders at the gate. read more.
The young woman's father will say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her. He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: 'I didn't find [any] evidence of your daughter's virginity, but here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' They will spread out the cloth before the city elders. Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him. They will also fine him 100 silver [shekels] and give [them] to the young woman's father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

When Solomon was old, his wives seduced him [to follow] other gods. His heart was not completely with the Lord his God, as his father David's heart had been. Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the detestable idol of the Ammonites. Solomon did what was evil in the Lord's sight, and unlike his father David, he did not completely follow the Lord. read more.
At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the detestable idol of the Ammonites on the hill across from Jerusalem. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and offering sacrifices to their gods.

After some time his master's wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, "Sleep with me." But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority. No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?" read more.
Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her. Now one day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants was there. She grabbed him by his garment and said, "Sleep with me!" But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

The doorkeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and the firstfruits of my virility, excelling in prominence, excelling in power. Turbulent as water, you will no longer excel, because you got into your father's bed and you defiled it-he got into my bed.

Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”

There you will remember your ways and all your deeds that you have defiled yourselves with, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil things you have done.

For there are also many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from Judaism.

But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
they gathered against me.
Assailants I did not know
tore at me and did not stop.

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things,

Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair on their temples. All these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless will perish.

Their feet run after evil,
and they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.

A worthless man digs up evil,
and his speech is like a scorching fire.

א AlefHow happy are those whose way is blameless,
who live according to the Lord’s instruction!

Those slaves the master will find alert when he comes will be blessed. I assure you: He will get ready, have them recline at the table, then come and serve them.

Anyone with a wise heart is called discerning,
and pleasant speech increases learning.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world.

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people for His own possession, eager to do good works.

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

These will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because He is Lord of lords and King of kings. Those with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

Better to be lowly of spirit with the humble
than to divide plunder with the proud.

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

The children are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’

But the house of Israel will not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hardhearted.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.

The righteous hate lying,
but the wicked act disgustingly and disgracefully.

And with many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt generation!”

His people have acted corruptly toward Him;
this is their defect—they are not His children
but a devious and crooked generation.

The children are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

through glory and dishonor,
through slander and good report;
as deceivers yet true;

The wicked flee when no one is pursuing them,
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

The look on their faces testifies against them,
and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin.
They do not conceal it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.

Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed,
for they will be filled.

“The poor in spirit are blessed,
for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.
Holy Father,
protect them by Your name
that You have given Me,
so that they may be one as We are one.

But You are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.