39 Bible Verses about Scoffers

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare it unto you.

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? Others, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

Proud and haughty scoffer is his name, who deals in arrogant pride.

He that reproves a scoffer gets for himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself injury.

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

So the runners went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. And be not like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see. Now be you not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.read more.
For if you turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return unto him. So the runners passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?

Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?

Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he struck the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide meat for his people?

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and the counsel of the most High: Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help.

When he avenges blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge. Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous act, which they are not able to perform. Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings toward their face. Be exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.

I was cast upon you from birth: you are my God from my mother's womb.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

Shall the ax boast itself against him that hews with it? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that uses it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.

For the ruthless one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Against whom do you make sport? against whom do you open your mouth wide, and stick out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood,

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame scorch you.

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his idols? for they say, The LORD sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the land.

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD sees not.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city: Who say, It is not near for us to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.