Bible verses about "mocking" | Moffatt

²⁹ Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

⁴ no, nor indecent, silly, or scurrilous talk — all that is improper. Rather, voice your thanks to God.

² Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

⁵ Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.

³ To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions, ⁴ asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation." ⁵ They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water. ⁶ By water the then-existing world was deluged and destroyed, ⁷ but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed.