Bible verses about "mocking" | LITV

²⁹ Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect to the need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.

⁴ also baseness, and foolish talking, or joking (the things not becoming), but rather thanksgiving.

⁶ A scorner seeks wisdom, but finds it not, yet knowledge is swift to the discerning. ⁷ Go from before a foolish man, or you will not see the lips of knowledge. ⁸ The wisdom of the wise is to understand his way, but the foolishness of fools is deceit. ⁹ Fools laugh at guilt offering, but among the righteous is favor.

² And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all freely and with no reproach, and it will be given to Him.

⁴ On whom are you making sport? On whom do you make a wide mouth and draw out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a lying seed,

³ first, knowing this, that during the last days scoffers will come walking according to their own lusts, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation. ⁵ For this is hidden from them by their willing it so, that heavens were of old, and earth by water, and through water, being held together by the word of God, ⁶ through which the world which then was, being flooded by water, perished. ⁷ But the heavens and the earth now, having been stored up by the same word, are being kept for fire to a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹² A scorner loves not one who corrects him, nor will he go to the wise.

¹ Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners and has not sat in the seat of scorners.

⁵ Whoever scorns the poor reviles his Maker, he who rejoices at calamity shall not be innocent.